<div class="page photo" style=""> <article> <header style=" background-image:url(/imageLibrary/7K0A0664_16312.JPG); "> <div class="box"> <div class="intro" style="color: #ff7f2a;"> <h1 style="color: #ff7f2a !important;">What's New</h1> <p class="summary"></p> </div> </div> </header> <div class="main"> <div class="container"> <p class="byline"> </p> <h4><a href="http://spectrum.ieee.org/video/robotics/robotics-software/genetically-engineered-rat-cells-make-this-robot-stingray-swim" target="_blank">Genetically Engineered Rat Cells Make This Robot Stingray Swim</a></h4><p>July 12, 2016 by Celia Gorman and Evan Ackerman</p><p><img src="/uploads/579098e95a43c.jpg" unselectable="on"></p><p><strong></strong></p><p>Robots have advanced an enormous amount over the past few years, but they’re nowhere close to the efficiency and capability of animals. One way to avoid playing catch-up is to simply steal everything you can from animals as directly as possible. Which is exactly what a <a href="http://science.sciencemag.org/cgi/doi/10.1126/science.aaf4292">team of researchers</a>, led by Sung-Jin Park and <a href="http://wyss.harvard.edu/viewpage/126/kevin-kit-parker">Professor Kevin Kit Parker</a> at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard did. </p><p>Why a stingray? Read all the details: <a href="http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/robotics-hardware/a-cyborg-stingray-made-of-rat-muscles-and-gold">A Cyborg Stingray Made of Rat Muscles and Gold</a></p><p>Video and Photo Credits: Sung-Jin Park, Kyung Soo Park, Karaghen Hudson, and Michael Rosnach</p><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/L3Xg61eCTpQ" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="" style="width: 641px; height: 405px;"></iframe><p><a href="http://spectrum.ieee.org/video/robotics/robotics-software/genetically-engineered-rat-cells-make-this-robot-stingray-swim" target="_blank">Read more</a></p><p><img src="/uploads/57909cb8c6486.jpg" unselectable="on"></p><h4></h4><h4><a href="http://spectrum.ieee.org/nanoclast/biomedical/imaging/carbon-nanotubes-reveal-cancer-deep-inside-tissue" target="_blank">Carbon Nanotubes Reveal Cancer Deep Inside Tissue</a></h4><p>Posted 24 May 2016 by Dexter Johnson</p><p><img src="/uploads/57909be04d0d9.jpg" unselectable="on"></p><p>Photo : Weisman Lab</p><p>Researchers at Rice University in Houston, Texas, have <a href="http://news.rice.edu/2016/05/20/nanotubes-are-beacons-in-cancer-imaging-technique-2/">developed a medical imaging technique </a>that combines carbon nanotubes, LED light, and a photodiode detector to pinpoint the location of tumors buried 20 millimeters deep in simulated tissue. The researchers believe that this is the deepest that carbon nanotubes have been detected inside of tissue.</p><p>In research described in the journal <a href="http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2016/nr/c6nr01376g#!divAbstract"><em>Nanoscale</em></a>, the Rice team exploited the ability of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) to luminesce in the short-wave infrared (SWIR) region of the spectrum. While this SWNT luminescence has previously <a href="http://spectrum.ieee.org/nanoclast/semiconductors/nanotechnology/carbon-nanotubes-fluoresce-at-right-wave-length-for-seeing-internal-organs">proven effective in illuminating internal organs</a>, researchers were still unable to reliably detect and localize the source of the SWIR emission from inside tissues. The answer they came up with is a method called spectral triangulation.</p><p><a href="http://spectrum.ieee.org/nanoclast/biomedical/imaging/carbon-nanotubes-reveal-cancer-deep-inside-tissue" target="_blank">Read more</a></p> </div> </div> </article> </div><!-- /page-->