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When the science of biology pushes the envelope, like when we determine aspects of our babies or cause human ears to grow on mice, we are Playing God.  This is a series that explore those advances.

muscle-fiber-540x380.jpg Anytime there is a synthetic body part, my ears perk up.  A synthesized eyeball?  A fabricated tongue?  A man-made liver?  Wha?  I must learn about it.

Well, researchers at University of California, L.A. have taken a technology used in Japan to generate electricity from ocean waves and applied it to artificial muscles.  What would that make?  A self-healing, electricity-generating muscle.  Holy.  Moly.  Sounds like success to me.

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