Synthetic cell SpudCell, the first built from non-living components by University of Minnesota synthetic biologists Kate ...
And Schafmeister isn’t the only chemist turning to modular methods of synthesis to explore vast regions of chemical space. It ...
Scientists say they have developed the world’s first synthetic cell with a complete life cycle, built entirely from ...
While many of life's mysteries remain unsolved, every biologist can describe the basic processes performed by a living organism, including energy use, reproduction, growth and development. While these ...
Synthetic biologists were tantalized by the idea of making mirror images of microbes. Then things got complicated. For four days in February 2019, some 30 synthetic biologists and ethicists hunkered ...
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Artificial hydrogel tendons supercharge muscle-powered robots

It’s not every day that a robot receives an upgrade like a soft, gummy cable, but MIT just made it possible. They did so by ...
Researchers created tough hydrogel artificial tendons, attached them to lab-grown muscle to form a muscle-tendon unit, then linked the tendons to a robotic gripper's fingers. (Nanowerk News) Our ...
Our muscles are nature's actuators. The sinewy tissue is what generates the forces that make our bodies move. In recent years, engineers have used real muscle tissue to actuate "biohybrid robots" made ...