Japanese researchers developed a tiny microchip valve that can be entirely powered by a living earthworm’s muscles, no electricity required. According to a press release, it’s the first valve of its ...

Tokyo - The new field of biohybrid robotics involves the use of living tissue within robots, rather than just metal and plastic. Muscle is one potential key component of such robots, providing the ...

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In fiction, cyborgs typically start as fully biological and later have mechanical elements incorporated. This has the convenient consequences of avoiding questions of whether or not a cyborg is a ...

Scientists at the RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research (BDR) in Japan have developed the first microchip valve powered by living cells. Earthworm muscle tissue allowed for a high contractile ...

Cyborgs -- entities with both organic and biomechatronic body parts -- are still mostly the stuff of science fiction. But that’s changing thanks in part to scientific advancements like a bio-inspired ...

Heart muscle cells grown from patient stem cells—known as human induced pluripotent stem cell–derived cardiomyocytes, or hiPSC-CMs—are a promising way to repair hearts damaged by heart attacks and ...

Researchers have developed a novel method of growing whole muscles from hydrogel sheets impregnated with myoblasts. They then incorporated these muscles as antagonistic pairs into a biohybrid robot, ...

Video showing the flow of fluorescently labeled microparticles through a microchannel on the chip. At 10 seconds, acetylcholine is applied and the valve begins to close. At this time the flow reverses ...