Proteins are used by living organisms to perform important movement, transport and sensing functions. The extraction of a contractile protein from pulses (broad beans) takes us closer to making fully functional biomimetic synthetic machines.
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Mavroidis, C., Dubey, A. From pulses to motors. Nature Mater 2, 573–574 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat973
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