In yet another science-is-awesome moment, a group of Harvard University researchers has engineered an artificial jellyfish from silicone and cells from a rat’s heart.
Harvard bioengineers constructed a freely swimming jellyfish from “chemically dissociated rat tissue and silicone polymer,” as documented by the journal Nature Biotechnology. This research lab mostly focuses its time on creating models of human heart tissues that could be used to regenerate organs. It created the artificial jellyfish to help the team better understand “muscular pumps” by reverse engineering one.
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