Harvard scientists created 'cyborg' skin from neurons, heart cells, and nano-electronic wiring Wiring allows scientists to detect and respond to pH changes on the tissue's surface, the same as human skin

By Daily Mail Reporter

PUBLISHED: 23:43 EST, 29 August 2012 | UPDATED: 11:31 EST, 30 August 2012

It like its something out of a science-fiction movie genius scientists engineer a synthetic skin thats part living, part electronics.

But scientists at Harvard University have done just that, creating meshes of electronic and biological tissue.

The end result is cyborg tissue, which is created from electrodes and wires combined on a Nano-scale.

Engineering humanity: Scientists at Harvard have found a way to create cyborg skin, using nano-wires to mesh and human cells

High tech: Here, cardiac cells are pictured with a nano-electroic electrode highlighted

The results, published in Nature Materials, detail how scientists in the lab embedded electrical nanowires into the lab-grown flesh.

Dr Charles Lieber, who is a chemistry professor at Harvard and the leader of the research team, told the Harvard Gazette: With this technology, for the first time, we can work at the same scale as the unit of biological system without interrupting it.

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Half man, half machine: Scientists engineer first 'cyborg' tissue - which uses living human cells and organic polymers