The constructs, termed ‘medusoids’, were designed with computer simulations and experiments to match key determinants of jellyfish propulsion and feeding. Enter the era of synthetic physiology! Why not build a jellyfish from neonatal rat heart cells and some plastic? This is exactly what was accomplished in this study. jellyfish. This engineered jellyfish displays behavior such as propulsion and swimming when A tissue engineered jellyfish with biomimetic propulsion [1].

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Colorized image of the tissue-engineered jellyfish in ocean-like saltwater. Modeling of cardiac muscle thin films: DabiriJohn H. A tissue-engineered jellyfish with biomimetic propulsion. But the animal once was known as the Medusa, after the snake-haired mythological creature its tentacles resemble.
Together, the two groups worked for years to understand the key factors that contribute to jellyfish propulsion, including the arrangement of their muscles, how their bodies contract and recoil, and how fluid-dynamic effects proppulsion or hinder their movements.
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Institutional access Recommend FPrime to your librarian or information manager to request an extended free trial for all users at your institution. Recent advances in the mechanistic understanding of biosynthetic compound materials, computer-aided design approaches in molecular synthetic biology and traditional soft robotics, and increasing aptitude in generating structural and chemical microenvironments that promote cellular self-organization have enhanced the ability to recapitulate such hierarchical architecture in engineered biological systems.
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In fact, the muscle cells started to contract a bit on their own even before the electrical current was applied.
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AlfordAdam W. The similarities help reveal what you need to do to design a bio-inspired pump. The team at Harvard—with the help of Nawroth, who spent time on both campuses during the length of the project—fashioned the silicone polymer that makes up the body of the Medusoid into a thin membrane that resembles a small jellyfish, with eight arm-like appendages.
