{"id":441,"date":"2012-08-14T18:42:56","date_gmt":"2012-08-14T18:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/debrobertson\/?p=441"},"modified":"2012-08-14T18:42:56","modified_gmt":"2012-08-14T18:42:56","slug":"quest-to-build-a-heart-gets-lift-from-jellyfish-boston-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/debrobertson\/2012\/08\/14\/quest-to-build-a-heart-gets-lift-from-jellyfish-boston-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Quest to build a heart gets lift from jellyfish &#8211; Boston.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/articles.boston.com\/2012-07-23\/business\/32786960_1_jellyfish-john-dabiri-rat-heart-cells\">Quest to build a heart gets lift from jellyfish &#8211; Boston.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is a great article describing how researchers at Harvard and Cal Tech, inspired by the movements of jellyfish, created a &#8220;pseudo-organism&#8221; using rat heart cells seeded onto an eight-lobed silica polymer.\u00a0 The resulting &#8220;Medusoid&#8221; responds to electrical stimuli and can propel itself by pumping, similar to the jellyfish.\u00a0 The work provides a foundation for\u00a0 building other artificial pumps, perhaps even a heart-like structure.\u00a0 Once again, Nature is shown to be an extraordinary engineer!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quest to build a heart gets lift from jellyfish &#8211; Boston.com. This is a great article describing how researchers at Harvard and Cal Tech, inspired by the movements of jellyfish, created a &#8220;pseudo-organism&#8221; using rat heart cells seeded onto an &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/debrobertson\/2012\/08\/14\/quest-to-build-a-heart-gets-lift-from-jellyfish-boston-com\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Quest to build a heart gets lift from jellyfish &#8211; Boston.com<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4352],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/debrobertson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/debrobertson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/debrobertson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/debrobertson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/72"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/debrobertson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/debrobertson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/debrobertson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/debrobertson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/debrobertson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}