Building a Jellyfish Mimic with Tissue Engineering
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Channel: Chemical & Engineering News · 2012 · Science & Technology
For more information, go to http://cenm.ag/jelly. Researchers at Caltech and Harvard have made a polymer sheet that swims like a jellyfish. In this video, Janna Nawroth, a graduate student at Caltech, explains what inspired the team and talks about how the researchers optimized the design of their synthetic jellyfish with a printed protein and some rat heart cells. The researchers say that the jellyfish mimic could help them learn about jellyfish evolution or might even help them test cardiac drugs in the future.
