Investigating the Life Expectancy and Proteolytic Degradation of Engineered Skeletal Muscle Biological Machines

Abstract A combination of techniques from 3D printing, tissue engineering and biomaterials has yielded a new class of engineered biological robots that could be reliably controlled via applied signals. These machines are powered by a muscle strip composed of differentiated skeletal myofibers in a ma...

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Main Authors: Caroline Cvetkovic, Meghan C. Ferrall-Fairbanks, Eunkyung Ko, Lauren Grant, Hyunjoon Kong, Manu O. Platt, Rashid Bashir
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2017-06-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-03723-8