bioinspiration

For centuries, painters and poets have looked to the ocean for insight. Researchers, too, have found their muse in the Earth’s salty realm.

This fish-inspired robot swims at greater speeds than previous ones.

Researchers have implanted electronics masquerading as neurons in the brains of mice.

Cats’ tongues are covered in tiny spines called papillae, which help wick moisture from the mouth and onto the fur.

A free algorithm helps synthetic biologists decide which codons to use to encode repetitive proteins using the least-repetitive DNA sequence possible.

Researchers are borrowing designs from the natural world to advance biomedicine.

Witness a bioinspired device developed by researchers at Harvard’s Wyss Institute to treat sepsis.