Saturday, September 08, 2007
posted by @netwurker at 10:07 am
By Matt Ford | Published: September 06, 2007 - 01:00PM CT

"Tissue- and bio-engineering promise some of the biggest breakthroughs science and engineering will deliver in the next few years. Today a paper appears in Science that reports on the creation of a biohybrid device that uses plastics and muscle cells to enable autonomous walking and swimming. These devices, created by a pair of research groups at Harvard University, are termed muscular thin films (MTFs)."

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