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Analytical and machine learning approaches identify a sea star steroid with promising activity for COVID-19 therapeutic development.

Scientific reports
The pressing demand for safe and efficient COVID-19 treatments has intensified interest in Natural products, especially those derived from marine organisms. In this study, a bioactive steroidal compound, 5α-cholesta-9(11)-en-3β,20β-diol, was successf...

Cooperative transport in sea star locomotion.

Current biology : CB
It is unclear how animals with radial symmetry control locomotion without a brain. Using a combination of experiments, mathematical modeling, and robotics, we tested the extent to which this control emerges in sea stars (Protoreaster nodosus) from th...

An Ambidextrous STarfish-Inspired Exploration and Reconnaissance Robot (The ASTER-bot).

Soft robotics
As more roboticists are turning to Nature for design inspiration, it is becoming increasingly apparent that multisystem-level investigations of biological processes can frequently lead to unexpected advances in the development of experimental researc...

A starfish robot based on soft and smart modular structure (SMS) actuated by SMA wires.

Bioinspiration & biomimetics
This paper describes the design, fabrication and locomotion of a starfish robot whose locomotion principle is derived from a starfish. The starfish robot has a number of tentacles or arms extending from its central body in the form of a disk, like th...