Scientists Made a ‘Fish’ From Human Cardiac Cells, And It Swims Like a Beating Heart

With its tail flipping rhythmically from side to side, this strange synthetic fish scoots around in its salt and glucose solution, using the same power as our beating hearts. This nifty miniaturized circulatory system, developed by scientists at Harvard and Emory universities, can keep swimming to the beat for more than 100 days.   The … Read more

Corkscrew-shaped robot swims through blood and delivers thrombolytic drugs

Laboratory tests show a tiny robot with a helical propeller inspired by bacteria can swim through veins and deliver clot-busting drugs Technology 10 January 2022 By Alex Wilkins Illustration of a blood clot and, inset, the helical microrobot CHRISTOPH BURGSTEDT/Getty Images/Science Phot Library. Inset: Qianqian Wang, Xingzhou Du, Dongdong Jin, and Li Zhang A corkscrew-shaped … Read more