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Quadruped animal locomotion emerges from the interactions between the spinal central pattern generator (CPG), sensory feedback, and supraspinal drive signals from the brain. Computational models of CPGs have been widely used for investigating the spinal co ...

IEEE2023

Flexible surgical device with controllable stiffness

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The invention relates to a surgical device (10), comprising a tubular outer shaft (12,) and an inner element (14) having an elongated shape, the outer shaft comprising a distal (30a) and a proximal (30b) outer hinges, the inner element comprising an inner ...

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EPFL2022

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Nature Research2019

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FRONTIERS MEDIA SA2018

Effects of passive and active joint compliance in quadrupedal locomotion

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TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD2018

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Olaf Blanke, Wietske Van der Zwaag, Andrea Serino, Roger Gassert, Roberto Martuzzi, Michel Akselrod

Primary somatosensory cortex (S1) processes somatosensory information and is composed of multiple subregions. In particular, tactile information from the skin is encoded in three subregions, namely Brodmann areas (BAs) 3b, 1 and 2, with each area represent ...

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Delta-Notch signalling in segmentation

Andrew Charles Oates

Modular body organization is found widely across multicellular organisms, and some of them form repetitive modular structures via the process of segmentation. It's vastly interesting to understand how these regularly repeated structures are robustly genera ...

Elsevier Sci Ltd2017

Climbing favours the tripod gait over alternative faster insect gaits

Dario Floreano, Auke Ijspeert, Thibault Lucien Christian Asselborn, Pavan P Ramdya, Robin Thandiackal

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Nature Research2017

A role for HOX13 proteins in the regulatory switch between TADs at the HoxD locus

Denis Duboule, Leonardo Beccari, Anamaria Necsulea, Nicolas Lonfat, Edgardo Rodriguez Carballo, Nayuta Yakushiji

During vertebrate limb development, Hoxd genes are regulated following a bimodal strategy involving two topologically associating domains (TADs) located on either side of the gene cluster. These regulatory landscapes alternatively control different subsets ...

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A patient-specific numerical musculoskeletal knee model : application to patellar resurfacing in Total Knee Arthroplasty

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EPFL2015

Miniature curved artificial compound eyes

Dario Floreano, Ramon Pericet Camara, Géraud L'Eplattenier, Michal Karol Dobrzynski

In most animal species, vision is mediated by compound eyes, which offer lower resolution than vertebrate single-lens eyes, but significantly larger fields of view with negligible distortion and spherical aberration, and high temporal resolution in a tiny ...

National Academy of Sciences2013

Oncilla robot: a light-weight bio-inspired quadruped robot for fast locomotion in rough terrain

Auke Ijspeert, Alexander Spröwitz, Mostafa Ajallooeian, Rico Möckel, Alexandre Tuleu

: On the hardware level, we are proposing and testing a bio-inspired quadruped robot design (Oncilla robot), based on light-weight, compliant, and three-segmented legs. Our choice of placing the compliance such that it is spanning two joints enforces a non ...

2011

In vivo loading increases mechanical properties of scaffold by affecting bone formation and bone resorption rates

Dominique Pioletti, Alireza Roshan Ghias

A successful bone tissue engineering strategy entails producing bone-scaffold construct with adequate mechanical properties. Apart from the mechanical properties of the scaffold itself, the forming bone inside the scaffold also adds to the strength of the ...

2011

Surgical preparation of bone-scaffold interface is critical for bone regeneration inside tissue engineering scaffold

Dominique Pioletti, Alireza Roshan Ghias

The goal of this study was to investigate if the preparation of implantation site has an impact on bone formation inside tissue engineering scaffolds. For this purpose, two different drilling techniques were used to create a hole in distal femurs of rats b ...

Wiley-Blackwell2011

Biomechanical Aspects of Osteogenesis in Load-Bearing Tissue Engineering Scaffolds

Alireza Roshan Ghias

There is increasing evidence that mechanical stimulation affects the fate of tissue engineering scaffolds. In clinical situations, it is critical to accelerate bone formation inside the scaffold to reduce the recovery time and increase the chance of succes ...

EPFL2011

Augmentation of bone defect healing using a new biocomposite scaffold: an in vivo study in sheep

Dominique Pioletti, Pierre-Etienne Bourban

Previous studies support resorbable biocomposites made of poly L-lactic acid (PLA) and β-tricalcium phosphate (TCP) produced by supercritical gas foaming as a suitable scaffold for tissue engineering. The present study was undertaken to demonstrate the bio ...

Elsevier2010