Biohybrid Fish Swimming (VIDEO)
Caption
This is the first autonomous biohybrid device made from human stem-cell derived cardiomyocytes. This device was inspired by the shape and swimming motion of a zebrafish. Unlike previous devices, the biohybrid zebrafish has two layers of muscle cells, one on each side of the tail fin. When one side contracts, the other stretches. That stretch triggers the opening of a mechanosensitive protein channel, which causes a contraction, which triggers a stretch and so on and so forth, leading to a closed loop system that can propel the fish for more than 100 days.
Credit
Credit to Keel Yong Lee, Sung-Jin Park, David G. Matthews, George Lauder, Kevin Kit Parker
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CC BY