Caltech and Harvard Universities developed a jellyfish that is not a jellyfish at all. This creature has been given the name "Medusoid".
Medusoid is a very fasinating creature. It looks really cool and it can move similar to an actual jellyfish. Medusoid was created using cells from a rat's heart and silicon. The rat cells were grown onto the silicon, creating Medusoid. Medusoid contracts like a heart when an electric current is sent through the water. If this jellyfish can act like a human heart, medications could eventually be tested on it before they are given to humans. Technology like this could also be used to make things such as a pacemaker that requires no batteries, and more potential discoveries. I believe that Medusoid will lead to many new scientific advancements. If we have found how to make a jellyfish, we could eventually learn how to make more wonderful things.
Watch this video to see Medusoid in action!
CITE (For both the video and the information)
Author= Colin Lecher
Published= July 23, 2012
Read= March 17, 2015
Cite= http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2012-07/video-jellyfish-made-rats-heart-cells-could-help-study-heart-disease
