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Sutures pervade surgeries, but their performance is limited by the mechanical mismatch with tissues and the lack of advanced functionality. Existing modification strategies result in either deterioration of suture’s bulk properties or a weak coating susceptible to rupture or delamination. Inspired by tendon endotenon sheath, we report a versatile strategy to […]
A new study is the first to identify how human brains grow much larger, with three times as many neurons, compared with chimpanzee and gorilla brains. The study identified a key molecular switch that can make ape brain organoids grow more like human organoids, and vice versa.
Abstract: Bioinspired superhydrophobic surfaces have attracted many industrial and academic interests in recent years. Inspired by unique superhydrophobicity and anisotropic friction properties of snake scale surfaces, this study explores the feasibility to produce a bionic superhydrophobic stainless steel surface via laser precision engineering, which allows the realization of directional superhydrophobicity and […]
Biological muscles have always attracted robotics researchers due to their efficient capabilities in compliance, force generation, and mechanical work. Many groups are working on the development of artificial muscles, however, state-of-the-art methods still fall short in performance when compared with their biological counterpart. […]
OrniLux is working to create glass that protects birds from the relatively new human design of glass. As more and more birds die each year from running into glass that they simply can’t see, OrniLux is trying to solve the problem by creating glass that utilizes tiny strands inside of it […]
Tailocins are proteins produced by bacteria that target specific species of other bacteria, destroying them. When a bacterium produces tailocins, it kills the original bacterium but protects other individuals of the same species by killing other competing bacteria.
New robots inspired by marine life are making significant strides in ocean research. Using deep sea creature-like features, they are able to explore where no man has gone before, and explore the deepest depths of our ocean. New technologies are also allowing humans to map the ocean and see what the […]
PatternFox was founded in 2016 by a group of leading international authorities in the field of biologically inspired design. With more than a decade of experience, PatternFox consulting enable clients to successfully apply biologically inspired design to a variety of problems faced by modern industry. Their unique process for implementing bio-inspired […]
Sutures pervade surgeries, but their performance is limited by the mechanical mismatch with tissues and the lack of advanced functionality. Existing modification strategies result in either deterioration of suture’s bulk properties or a weak coating susceptible to rupture or delamination. Inspired by tendon endotenon sheath, we report a versatile strategy to […]
The ability of this pteropod species to perform the cylindrical overlap-and-fling maneuver twice during each stroke is enabled by its slender body and highly flexible wings. The cylindrical overlap-and-fling mechanism observed here may inspire the design of new soft robotic aquatic vehicles incorporating […]
Dragonflies swarms are a source of inspiration for this paper because of their ability to form swarms and communicate amongst themselves. This papers explores how swarming dragonflies can help in node identification in ultra-reliable low-latency communication. The aspects of dragonfly swarming that this […]
Portable vapor sensors or ‘sniffers’ have obvious applications in military, industrial, and gas-utility field operations. But conventional sensors lack the resolution and species selectivity of high-end laboratory instrumentation, which can identify and quantify unknowns down to part-per-billion or even part-per-trillion levels in complex mixtures containing hundreds or thousands of volatiles. Although […]
The Stanford Biodesign process can be applied to a wide variety of clinical areas, cardiovascular medicine is particularly well suited, given the breadth of clinical presentations it touches and its history of innovation to solve important clinical problems. Physicians play a vital role in the process, especially for needs identification and […]
Soft and flexible E-skin advances are a subset of soft robotics field where the soft morphology of human skin is mimicked. The number of prototypes that conformed the use of biological tissues within the structure of soft robots—to develop “Biohybrid Soft Robots”—has increased in the last decade. However, no research was […]
Recently, researchers at University of Trento have succeeded in quantifying the “air-encapsulating, elastic mechanism” of dandelion seeds, or blowballs, when submerged underwater. Although these seeds are not meant to be underwater or operate in an aquatic environment, the scientists believe that its behaviors underwater can be beneficial for potential bioinspired devices.
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Compound eyes are natural multiaperture optical imaging systems and have substantial potential in the field of modern optics. However, both natural and artificial compound eyes are composed of ommatidia with fixed focal lengths, and thus incapable of variable‐focus imaging. In this study, inspired by the tunable crystalline lens of human eyes, […]
In late 2018, the highly destructive and polyphagous fall armyworm was first detected in China. It is now a major economic threat to corn production. In this article, the main control strategies that are available are reviewed and prospects to manage this pest with Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) corn in China are […]
This paper provides a general overview of the potential of bioinspired textile structures by highlighting a few specific examples of pertinent, inherently sustainable biological systems. There are numerous examples of functional surfaces, fibrous structures, structural colors, self-healing, thermal insulation, etc., which offer important […]
The ability to propel against flows, that is, to perform positive rheotaxis, can provide exciting opportunities for applications in targeted therapeutics and non-invasive surgery. So far no biocompatible technologies exist for navigating microparticles upstream when they are in a background fluid flow. Inspired by many naturally occurring microswimmers—such as bacteria, spermatozoa […]
This review focuses on the effects of structured water on animals when it is consumed on a daily basis. Structured water is liquid water that is given altered H-bonding structure by treatment with various forms of energy including magnetic fields and light. While most of the research has been conducted on […]
Biologists have long experienced the challenges of documenting ocean life, with many species of fish proving quite sensitive to the underwater movements of humans. As a possible solution, computer scientists have been developing special marine robots that can stealthily move among their carbon-based counterparts: in 2018, for example, a team from […]
Mucus is a significant part of the body’s defense mechanism against illness. Because of its benefits to human health, researchers at MIT found a way to create synthetic mucus by replicating the make-up of real mucins. The new synthetic mucus successfully neutralized the bacterial toxin that causes cholera, and this new […]
Dragonfly wings are mainly composed of veins and membranes, providing it special characteristics that enable the insect to be extremely versatile and maneuverable. To understand the complex venation structure of the wings, scientists have used topology optimization method (TOM) to simplify the object’s structure and created various quantitative models to mimic […]
Ants react to social isolation in a similar way as do humans and other social mammals. A study has revealed alterations to the social and hygienic behavior of ants that had been isolated from their group. The research team was particularly surprised by the fact that immune and stress genes were […]
Boston University’s Biological Design Center and Department of Biomedical Engineering and Harvard University’s The Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering collaborate to create a model to understand the human wound healing process better. They used an in-vitro model with human cells to replicating the wound closing process and how tissue forms […]
It has taken more than a million fine samples of aerodynamic force and airflow combined to determine what makes a hummingbird’s wings so adept at hovering. The team led by David Lentink, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Stanford, believes that the results could have significant impacts in both aerodynamic […]
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