Nanoelectronic Scaffold for Tissue Culture
November 27, 2012 | Terry Sharrer
The concept of meshing human and nonhuman tissue into “cybernetic organisms” originated with the US space program and quickly moved into more traditional science fiction like D. S. Halacy’s “Cyborg: Evolution of Superman (1965) and the TV program “The Six Million Dollar Man.” Researchers at Harvard, however, have brought cybernetics down to Earth and into practical reality with a mesh of metal wires and transistors, coated with collagen and seeded with living cells. This scaffold is flexible enough to model a blood vessel, and its inventors believe it can be used in drug testing and, perhaps, for cyborg prosthetics. MORE
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