Engineers, chemists and others taking inspiration from biological systems for human applications must team up with biologists, writes Emilie Snell-Rood.
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Snell-Rood, E. Interdisciplinarity: Bring biologists into biomimetics. Nature 529, 277–278 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/529277a
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