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Scientists make artificial squid from rat cells
Topic Started: Jul 23 2012, 12:45 PM (374 Views)
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Bioengineers have made an artificial jellyfish using silicone and muscle cells from a rat’s heart. The synthetic creature, dubbed a medusoid, looks like a flower with eight petals. When placed in an electric field, it pulses and swims exactly like its living counterpart.
“Morphologically, we’ve built a jellyfish. Functionally, we’ve built a jellyfish. Genetically, this thing is a rat,” says Kit Parker, a biophysicist at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, who led the work.
When an electric field is applied across the structure, the muscle contracts rapidly, compressing the medusoid and mimicking a jellyfish’s power stroke. The elastic silicone then pulls the medusoid back to its original flat shape, ready for the next stroke.
When placed between two electrodes in water, the medusoid swam like the real thing. It even produced water currents similar to those that wash food particles into jellyfish’s mouths. “We thought if we’re really good at this, we’re going to recreate that vortex, and we did,” says Parker. “We took a rat apart and rebuilt it as a jellyfish.”
The team now plans to build a medusoid using human heart cells. The researchers have filed a patent to use their design, or something similar, as a platform for testing drugs.

http://www.nature.com/news/artificial-jellyfish-built-from-rat-cells-1.11046
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Jul 23 2012, 12:45 PM
The synthetic creature, dubbed a medusoid
Cause that's the best thing to scream when eight of them are ripping off your colleagues face. Fucking Medusoid? Was Spineraper taken?
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What were those things from Half Life called? (Never played it so I dunno)

Let's call it that.
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