Piezoelectric materials convert mechanical stress into electricity, or vice versa, and can be useful in sensors, actuators and many other applications. But implementing piezoelectrics in polymers—materials composed of molecular ...
Polymers
Mar 24, 2022
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Researchers monitoring the unprecedented bloom of toxic algae along the west coast of North America in 2015 found record levels of the algal toxin domoic acid in samples from a wide range of marine organisms. The toxin was ...
Environment
Dec 17, 2015
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How can damaged cardiac tissue following a heart attack best be treated with replacement muscle cells? A research team under the supervision of the University of Bonn reports an innovative method: Muscle replacement cells ...
Bio & Medicine
Dec 4, 2017
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Researchers are now able to use induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSC) to form a model of human adult-like cardiac muscle by introducing electric and mechanical stimulation at an early stage. Since this muscle is similar to ...
Biotechnology
Apr 5, 2018
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When muscle cells need repair, they use odor-detecting tools found in the nose to start the process, researchers have discovered.
Cell & Microbiology
Nov 16, 2009
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Minute differences in individual muscle cell contractions allow the entire muscle to flex with greater control and accuracy. Long dismissed as "noise" or error, experts now suspect that biological systems may have evolved ...
Cell & Microbiology
Sep 1, 2020
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What if doctors had a remote control that they could use to steer a patient's own cells to a wound to speed up the healing process? Although such a device is still far from reality, researchers reporting in the ACS journal ...
Bio & Medicine
Apr 17, 2019
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Certain molecules found in shark teeth proteins could tell scientists how the predators are connected to other animals in the food web, according to new research.
Plants & Animals
Dec 18, 2017
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Just as controlled-release medications slowly dole out their cargo after they experience a pH change in the body, implanted "artificial muscles" could someday flex and relax in response to light illuminating the skin. In ...
Materials Science
Apr 2, 2019
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Engineers at the University of California, San Diego, have completed the first comprehensive numerical simulation of skeletal muscle tissue using a method that uses the pixels in an image as data points for the computer simulation—a ...
Engineering
Sep 30, 2014
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