Exoskeleton
- What goes up must come down: biomechanical impact analysis of falling locusts
Highlighted Article: Free-falling locusts use several biomechanical mechanisms enabling them to control their body posture at impact. This ability allows them to quickly prepare for the next jump.
- Aquatic versus terrestrial crab skeletal support: morphology, mechanics, molting and scaling
Summary: Aquatic and terrestrial crabs experience different mechanical challenges that have little impact on their rigid skeleton but significant consequences for their hydrostatic skeleton that may constrain terrestrial crab size.
- Biomechanical mechanisms underlying exosuit-induced improvements in walking economy after stroke
Summary: A soft robotic exosuit designed to assist the paretic limb during walking can induce more symmetrical body center of mass power generation by the paretic and non-paretic limbs and reduce metabolic power consumption during hemiparetic walking.
- Biomineralization-related specialization of hemocytes and mantle tissues of the Pacific oyster Crassostrea gigas
Summary: Different subpopulations of oyster hemocytes are specialized for biomineralization or immune functions as revealed by functional differences and gene expression profiles.
- Nutrient intake determines post-maturity molting in the golden orb-web spider Nephila pilipes (Araneae: Araneidae)
Summary: Nutrition determines post-maturity molting (PMM) in the orb-web spider Nephila pilipes, suggesting PMM may have evolved as an adaptation to diverse foraging conditions during range expansion.