Flexing Synthesized Biceps

May 11, 2010

Corinna Wu at MIT's Technology Review reports on a discovery made by researchers at the University of British Columbia in Canada that could be the key to the development of an artificial biomaterial that mimics the elasticity of human muscle. The results of the study are reported in Nature.

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