{"id":883,"date":"2012-08-27T09:10:01","date_gmt":"2012-08-27T13:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/?p=883"},"modified":"2015-10-28T15:58:36","modified_gmt":"2015-10-28T19:58:36","slug":"man-made-jellyfish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/man-made-jellyfish\/","title":{"rendered":"Man-made jellyfish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Harvard bioengineers have made an artificial jellyfish by growing a single layer of rat heart muscle on a patterned sheet of polydimethylsiloxane. \u00a0As you can see from the following video, when placed between two electrodes in water, this synthetic structure can swim exactly like its living counterpart. The rat muscle contacts when an electric field is applied across the structure, and then the elastic silicone pulls the jellyfish back to its original shape.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMorphologically, we\u2019ve built a jellyfish. Functionally, we\u2019ve built a jellyfish. Genetically, this thing is a rat,\u201d said Kit Parker, the researcher who led this project.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Artificial jellyfish made from rat heart\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gfC3eVjmpfo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>You can read more in <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/news\/artificial-jellyfish-built-from-rat-cells-1.11046\">Nature Biotechnology<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harvard bioengineers have made an artificial jellyfish by growing a single layer of rat heart muscle on a patterned sheet of polydimethylsiloxane. \u00a0As you can see from the following video, when placed between two electrodes in water, this synthetic structure &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/man-made-jellyfish\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[96,15],"class_list":["post-883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-biotechnology","tag-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=883"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4140,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883\/revisions\/4140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}