Artificial muscle replaces itself

Scientists have for the first time built a type of biotech muscle that can automatically heal wounds on animals.

They hope this type of muscle culture in the lab will be an important step towards the use to treat human injuries.

Researchers measured the strength of artificial muscles by stimulating electrical impulses, which showed that it was "ten times better" than all previous artificial muscles.

The research team at Duke University found that the optimal environment for culturing this muscle requires two conditions - well-developed muscle fibers and a cluster of muscle cells , called cells. satellite cell .

They found that the newly created muscle could recover itself when it was damaged by the poison in the snake venom. This type of muscle can integrate into mice quickly and self-injure both in vitro and in animals.

'The type of muscle we create represents an important advance in this area. This is the first time a type of 'biotechnology' can be built that can contract as strongly as a baby's muscle. '

Now the team will begin to find out if this 'fake' muscle can be used to repair the damage and disease of real muscles.