The Reading team is not the first to harness living tissue to control robots.
He said the next step was to see if the same happened with these cells in living tissue.
They suspect it may be the residue from the decay of once-living tissue cells, not just bone a finding stirring skepticism among other paleontologists.
The boffins in Palo Alto want to build computers out of living tissue, and to that end they've created a biological transistor, called the transcriptor.
At the Touro College School of Health Sciences in New York, Morris Benjaminson and his team are working on removing living tissue from fish, and then growing it in culture.
Since different sorts of living tissue contain different amounts of hydrogen, the application of sufficient computing power to the signal can turn it into a clear image of the body's interior.
In the U.S., some universities and corporate laboratories are conducting research on "bioprinting, " or artificial construction of body parts using living human tissue.
Tissue living in the gel can then receive oxygen and nutrients through the hollow pipes.
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Tissue samples from living and post-mortem cases involving severe tissue infection should receive additional treatment.
After this initial success, the researchers tested the effects of statins in living animals by injecting the drugs directly into the tissue overlying the skullcaps of mice.
Over time, therefore, implants made of NanOss should be incorporated seamlessly into the once-damaged tissue, and become indistinguishable from normal, living bone.
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