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Mary Shelly and Dr Frankenstein move over!
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Martin Weiss <[log in to unmask]>
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What do you think? Is it alive? Is it a medusa? Did the authors over state
their work at all or egregiously? Interesting questions, I think

Martin

http://www.nature.com/news/artificial-jellyfish-built-from-rat-cells-1.11046?WT.ec_id=NEWS-20120724

Bioengineers have made an artificial jellyfish using silicone and muscle
cells from a rat’s heart. The synthetic creature, dubbed a medusoid, looks
like a flower with eight petals. When placed in an electric field, it
pulses and swims exactly like its living counterpart.

“Morphologically, we’ve built a jellyfish. Functionally, we’ve built a
jellyfish. Genetically, this thing is a rat,” says Kit Parker, a
biophysicist at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, who led the
work. The project is described today in *Nature
Biotechnology*1<http://www.nature.com/news/artificial-jellyfish-built-from-rat-cells-1.11046?WT.ec_id=NEWS-20120724#b1>
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Nawroth, J. C. *et al*. Nature Biotechol. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nbt.2269
(2012).

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