The Biohybrid Robofish: A Key to Improving Artificial Hearts
Friday, March 25th, 2022 -- Kit Parker’s team at Harvard University’s Wyss Institute has created biohybrid structures out of animal cardiac cells. Recently, they successfully created a “robofish” structure out of human cardiac cells to show how heart muscle contractions and pacemakers work. The robot fish consists of 2 layers of human cardiac cells on each side, as well as plastic and gelatin for structure. The cells on both sides of the fish allow it to “swim” by contracting