Harvard University physicists have unveiled this week a toenail-sized robot stingray that can swim through water with help from solar propulsion. The ray was bioengineered from rat heart cells and could help medical researchers develop better artificial organs. Just like its natural counterpart the robot ray can flap its fins to move through water, but the fins are put in motion by light pulses … [Read more...]
First Functional 3D Brain Tissue Model is Here
The brain is by far the most complex organ of the human body and now a small, yet huge breakthrough has been made in the field if bioengineering. Scientists have managed to create a 3D tissue model of a brain that can mimic brain function. Researchers over at Tufts University in Medford, MA, have managed to engineer a 3D tissue model of the brain of a rodent. The findings were published in The … [Read more...]