Mimicking the function of Ruffini receptors using a bio-inspired artificial skin
Credit: Nature Machine Intelligence (2022). DOI: 10.1038/s42256-022-00487-3
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3D printed, bioinspired heart valves: Scaffolds created by melt electrowriting aim to…
Close-up of a cylinder in a Melt Electrowriting system showing a printed heart valve scaffold. Credit: Andreas…
Bio-inspired, blood-repelling tissue glue could seal wounds quickly: A new adhesive…
Inspired by the sticky substance that barnacles use to cling to rocks, MIT engineers have designed a strong, biocompatible glue that can seal injured tissues and stop bleeding.
The new paste…
Newly developed, bioinspired cell delivery vehicles
Nanocontainers can transport substances into cells where they can then take effect. This is the method used in, for example, the mRNA vaccines currently being employed against Covid-19 as…
Bio-inspired hydrogel protects the heart from post-op adhesions
A hydrogel that forms a barrier to keep heart tissue from adhering to surrounding tissue after surgery was developed and successfully tested in rodents by a team of University of California…
A bio-inspired technique to mitigate catastrophic forgetting in binarized neural…
Neural networks implemented in artificial intelligence (top) are subject to catastrophic forgetting. If they are taught to recognize numbers…
Discovery of ray sperms’ unique swimming motion demonstrated with bio-inspired…
The bio-inspired robot consists of three parts like the ray sperm: a spiral head made of rigid iron wire, a helical tail made of soft cotton…
Harvesting light like nature does: Synthesizing a new class of bio-inspired,…
Inspired by nature, researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), along with collaborators from Washington State University, created a novel material capable of capturing…