Scientists have fashioned silicon and muscle cells into a freely swimming artificial "jellyfish", in a step towards eventually producing new tissue for patients with damaged hearts, researchers from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and Harvard University reported in Nature Biotechnology. The team used a combination of silicone and rat-heart cells for their laboratory-made jellyfish - they called Medusoid - which then swam freely through water.
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Scientists have turned inanimate silicone and living cardiac muscle cells into a freely swimming "jellyfish." The finding serves as a proof of concept for reverse engineering a variety of muscular organs and simple life forms. Read Post