Earthworms move through the soil not just by wriggling around, but by sending peristaltic waves down their bodies. A new robot, which employs that same strategy, could one day be used in underground ...

Although the fundamental circuitry required to generate a coordinated forward or backward sequence of contractions is assembled successfully in embryos lacking sensory inputs, the overall behaviour of ...

Swallowing (a) evokes a peristaltic wave of contraction that migrates smoothly from the striated to smooth muscle esophagus. Simultaneous electrical activation of all vagal efferent neurons (b) ...