04/05/2013

Building Synthetic Tissues from Water Droplets?

4:17 minutes

Reporting in Science, Gabriel Villar and colleagues have turned tiny water droplets into cooperating networks that can pass electrical signals and do mechanical work. Villar says that in theory, water droplet networks could be used as artificial tissues.

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Flora Lichtman

Flora Lichtman was the host of the podcast Every Little Thing. She’s a former Science Friday multimedia producer.

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Flora Lichtman was the host of the podcast Every Little Thing. She’s a former Science Friday multimedia producer.