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ArticleBiomimetics (Basel, Switzerland)2026

Advances in Biomimetics: Patents from Nature.

Stanislav N Gorb, Longjian Xue, Barbara Mazzolai, Phillip B Messersmith

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Article in Biomimetics (Basel, Switzerland), 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

0 citing papers in PubMed.

No citing paper in PubMed yet.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Stanislav N GorbDepartment of Functional Morphology and Biomechanics, Zoological Institute, Kiel University, 24118 Kiel, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-9712-7953
Longjian XueSchool of Power and Mechanical Engineering, Wuhan University, South Donghu Road 8, Wuhan 430072, China.ORCID 0000-0001-5512-747X
Barbara MazzolaiBioinspired Soft Robotics (BSR), Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT), Via Morego 30, 16163 Genova, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-0722-8350
Phillip B MessersmithDepartments of Bioengineering and Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, Hearst Memorial Mining Building, Berkeley, CA 94720-1760, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-1197-333X

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Biomimetics seeks to translate principles from living systems into innovative engineering solutions by drawing on the remarkable efficiency, adaptability, and multifunctionality found in nature [...].

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PMID42187370
PMCPMC13204198

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