The first onion muscle prototypes are very small -- just a few onion cells long. ... so the researchers decided to experiment with more easily accessible, and significantly cheaper biomaterials.

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TAIPEI, Taiwan, May 5 (UPI) --En route to designing a new and improved synthetic muscle, researchers at National Taiwan University realized the cells of an onion might work just as well. The goal ...

This week a team in Taiwan unveiled gold-plated onion cells that show promise at expanding, ... The team made muscle-like "tweezers" from onion skin cells. Shih Lab, ...

The concept of artificial muscle made from onion epidermal cell. (Image: Shih Lab, National Taiwan University) "The initial goal was to develop an engineered microstructure in artificial muscles for ...

Now, however, scientists from National Taiwan University have gotten around that limitation using gold-plated onion cells. Artificial muscles could one day revolutionize fields such as robotics, ...

Jutta Papenbrock: When we cut an onion, sulphurous, volatile substances are produced. This is because an onion cell contains the substance isoalliin and the enzyme alliinase.

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