Simulation and Fabrication of Stronger, Larger, and Faster Walking Biohybrid Machines

Fundamentals of soft robot locomotion

(2017) M. Calisti et al.   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

A modular approach to the design, fabrication, and characterization of muscle-powered biological machines

(2017) Ritu Raman et al.   Nature Protocols

Investigating the Life Expectancy and Proteolytic Degradation of Engineered Skeletal Muscle Biological Machines

(2017) Caroline Cvetkovic et al.   Scientific Reports

Optogenetic skeletal muscle-powered adaptive biological machines

(2016) Ritu Raman et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Tail use improves performance on soft substrates in models of early vertebrate land locomotors

(2016) B. McInroe et al.   SCIENCE

Patterning Cellular Alignment through Stretching Hydrogels with Programmable Strain Gradients

(2015) Lin Wang et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Force generation by skeletal muscle is controlled by mechanosensing in myosin filaments

(2015) Marco Linari et al.   NATURE

3D Biofabrication Strategies for Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine

(2014) Piyush Bajaj et al.   Annual Review of Biomedical Engineering

Physiology and metabolism of tissue-engineered skeletal muscle

(2014) Cindy S Cheng et al.   EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE

High force development augments skeletal muscle signalling in resistance exercise modes equalized for time under tension

(2014) Sebastian Gehlert et al.   PFLUGERS ARCHIV-EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY

The Direction of Stretch-Induced Cell and Stress Fiber Orientation Depends on Collagen Matrix Stress

(2014) Abhishek Tondon et al.   PLoS One

Three-dimensionally printed biological machines powered by skeletal muscle

(2014) C. Cvetkovic et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A self-propelled biohybrid swimmer at low Reynolds number

(2014) Brian J. Williams et al.   Nature Communications

Creating Living Cellular Machines

(2013) Roger D. Kamm et al.   ANNALS OF BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING

Three-dimensional neuron–muscle constructs with neuromuscular junctions

(2013) Yuya Morimoto et al.   BIOMATERIALS

Submicron-grooved culture surface extends myotube length by forming parallel and elongated motif

(2013) Chen-Ching Yuan et al.   Micro & Nano Letters

Formation and optogenetic control of engineered 3D skeletal muscle bioactuators

(2012) Mahmut Selman Sakar et al.   LAB ON A CHIP

A tissue-engineered jellyfish with biomimetic propulsion

(2012) Janna C Nawroth et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

Development of Polydimethylsiloxane Substrates with Tunable Elastic Modulus to Study Cell Mechanobiology in Muscle and Nerve

(2012) Rachelle N. Palchesko et al.   PLoS One

Development of Miniaturized Walking Biological Machines

(2012) Vincent Chan et al.   Scientific Reports

“Living” Microvascular Stamp for Patterning of Functional Neovessels; Orchestrated Control of Matrix Property and Geometry

(2011) Jae Hyun Jeong et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Supply of Nutrients to Cells in Engineered Tissues

(2011) Jeroen Rouwkema et al.   Biotechnology & Genetic Engineering Reviews

Multi-material bio-fabrication of hydrogel cantilevers and actuators with stereolithography

(2011) Vincent Chan et al.   LAB ON A CHIP

Directed 3D cell alignment and elongation in microengineered hydrogels

(2010) Hug Aubin et al.   BIOMATERIALS

Assembly of skeletal muscle cells on a Si-MEMS device and their generative force measurement

(2009) Kazunori Shimizu et al.   BIOMEDICAL MICRODEVICES

Mesoscopic hydrogel molding to control the 3D geometry of bioartificial muscle tissues

(2009) Weining Bian et al.   Nature Protocols

Modulation of 3D Fibrin Matrix Stiffness by Intrinsic Fibrinogen–Thrombin Compositions and by Extrinsic Cellular Activity

(2009) Haison Duong et al.   TISSUE ENGINEERING PART A

Vascularization Strategies for Tissue Engineering

(2009) Michael Lovett et al.   TISSUE ENGINEERING PART B-REVIEWS

Engineering a multi-nucleated myotube, the role of the actin cytoskeleton

(2008) M. PECKHAM   JOURNAL OF MICROSCOPY