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Scientists Engineer First ‘Cyborg’ Tissue
Half man, half machine Scientists engineer first ‘cyborg’ tissue – which uses living human cells and organic polymers
Harvard scientists created ‘cyborg’ skin from neurons, heart cells, and nano-electronic wiring.
Wiring allows scientists to detect and respond to pH changes on the tissue’s surface, the same as human skin. It like it’s something out of a science-fiction – genius scientistsa synthetic skin that’s part living, part electronics.
But scientists at Harvard University have done just that, creating meshes of electronic and biological tissue. The end is cyborg tissue, which is created from electrodes and wires combined on a Nano-scale.
Engineering humanity: Scientists at Harvard have found a way to create cyborg skin, using nano-wires to mesh and human cells
High tech: Here, cardiac cells are pictured with a nano-electroic electrode highlighted
The results, published in Nature Materials, detail how scientists in the lab embedded nanowires into the lab-grown flesh.
