3D Printed Biobot Powered by Heart Cells
Nov-19-12
A team of researchers has used heart and a 3D printer to create a biobot, which may one day seek out and neutralize toxins in the body.The scientists from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign built the robot by first creating a flexible gel scaffold, which they seeded with heart cells from rats. This cardiac tissue expanded to cover the scaffold in thin layer while the cells, powered by a liquid food, beat to give the biobot movement by causing it to bend and straighten. The soft biobot can be molded into shapes not possible with metal, and the 3D printing method makes it easy to design new shapes.
Eventually, the biobot could be incorporated with neurons programmed to steer the biobot toward a specific toxin, where it could then release a drug to neutralize the toxin.
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Can we say 2016 year will be year of robotic medicine year.?Can we hope that by this technic cancer cell can be destroyed successfully? I understand that this research is done by a team in USA headed by Bangladeshi Professor Taher Saif.
Posted by KAZI MOHAMMAD ALAMGIR on January 3, 2016
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Can we say 2016 year will be year of robotic medicine year.?Can we hope that by this technic cancer cell can be destroyed successfully? I understand that this research is done by a team in USA headed by Bangladeshi Professor Taher Saif.
Posted by KAZI MOHAMMAD ALAMGIR on January 3, 2016
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