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Engineers developed a method to grow artificial muscle tissue that twitches and flexes in multiple, coordinated directions. These tissues could be useful for building 'biohybrid' robots powered by ...

Now, MIT engineers have taken a major step toward developing robots that replace rigid gears with something much softer – almost like real, living muscle tissue. In other words, they have found ...

Researchers believe that this tension slightly damages the muscle tissue, resulting in a growth response. Keeping your muscles exposed to this tension also causes a build-up of various metabolites ...

Now MIT engineers have developed a method to grow artificial muscle tissue that twitches and flexes in multiple coordinated directions. As a demonstration, they grew an artificial, muscle-powered ...

Once all the fibers were grown, Takeuchi and his colleagues rolled them into tubes called MuMuTAs (multiple muscle tissue actuators) like they were preparing sushi rolls. “MuMuTAs were created ...

It’s a malignant tumour that grows in bone or soft tissue anywhere in the ... be rubbing my strange, painless lump in bemusement. I know I’m not the only one with sarcoma who thought they just had an ...