Nature is replete with slender filaments that bend and coil – from climbing grape vines, to folded proteins, to elephant ...

Researchers at Harvard University’s John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences have produced 3D printed filaments that are capable of bending, twisting, expanding, or contracting in ...

While multi-material 3D printers do already exist, the filament that they extrude is typically all one material at any one point in the printing process. A new system produces actual multi-material ...

Harvard researchers have developed a rotational multimaterial 3D printing technique to create programmable filaments that mimic biological muscles by bending, twisting, expanding, or contracting when ...

An electron microscopy study revealed key details of actin filaments, which are essential structural elements of cells and muscles. Actin filaments -- protein structures critical to living movement ...

Using muscle tissue from tarantulas, an HHMI international research scholar and his colleagues have figured out the detailed structure and arrangement of the miniature molecular motors that control ...

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