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Published online 16 August 2002 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news020812-10
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Gel machines constructed from chemically cross-linked actins and myosins
Artificial muscle made from natural building blocks.
Researchers in Japan have made artificial muscle from the components of real muscle. They extracted from shellfish the two proteins that work together in muscle and reconstituted them into separate blocks of gel.
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