Bioengineer, Author at BIOENGINEER.ORG

A latte and a slice of cake seem like a harmless indulgence, but for children and teenagers the combination can...

Hybrid AI Model Tames the Seasons to Predict Wind Power More Accurately

Wind power is one of the cleanest and fastest-growing sources of electricity on the planet, but it carries an awkward...

Microbes and Nanoparticles Team Up to Boost Garden Pea Yields by 27 Percent

A field experiment in Punjab, India, has shown that pairing ordinary soil bacteria with zinc and iron nanoparticles can push...

Chemical Tags on RNA Take Center Stage in Cancer’s Growth and Immune Evasion

Deep inside every cell, messenger RNA molecules carry chemical decorations that were long dismissed as molecular noise. The most abundant...

Digital Parenting Program Slimmed Down by Factorial Trial to Fight Teen Health Risks

A sweeping Australian experiment has revealed that less can genuinely be more when it comes to helping parents steer their...

Cobalt Sulfide Meets Nickel Selenide: A Tiny Interface That Supercharges Supercapacitors

Supercapacitors promise the best of both worlds in energy storage: they charge in seconds, deliver bursts of power that batteries...

Cell-Free Ribosomal RNA Offers a New Molecular Yardstick for Viral Lysis of Marine Algae

Every day, viruses kill an estimated 10 to 40 percent of the microbes in the ocean, a process known as...

Graphene-Boosted Coatings Slash Contact Resistance in Fuel Cell Plates

Hydrogen fuel cells promise clean mobility, but inside every proton exchange membrane fuel cell (PEMFC) stack, a quiet battle is...

Smarter Marker Panels Boost Genomic Prediction Power in Soybean Breeding

Soybean feeds billions of people and livestock around the world, yet breeding better varieties remains a slow, expensive guessing game...

Insurance Paperwork Hits Nearly Half of Cancer Survivors, Study Finds

Nearly half of cancer survivors in a new United States study report battling insurance-related administrative burdens years after their diagnosis,...

Rare ALK Fusion Lung Cancer Shows Durable Response to First-Line Lorlatinib

A 45-year-old man who had never smoked walked into a Japanese hospital in July 2024 complaining of weeks of progressive...

Ternary Oxide Catalyst Turns Biodiesel Waste Glycerol into Valuable Glycidol in One Pot

Glycerol, the humble three-carbon alcohol churned out by the billion litres every year as a by-product of biodiesel production, has...

Sunflower Genes Could Hold the Key to Climate-Proof Crops in the World’s Driest Farmlands

In the parched farmlands of the world’s semi-arid belts, crops rarely face one threat at a time. A field of...

War and Invasive Insects Push a Lifesaving Cactus Toward Collapse in the Horn of Africa

In the arid highlands of Ethiopia and Eritrea, a single plant has quietly held together an entire way of life...

AI Chatbot Plans Liver Biopsy Needle Paths in Landmark Pilot Test

Can a chatbot help steer a biopsy needle through the liver? A new pilot study from researchers at Memorial Sloan...

From Open Incisions to Intelligent Machines: The Radical Reinvention of Gastric Cancer Surgery

Gastric cancer surgery has traveled an extraordinary distance since Theodor Billroth performed the first successful gastric resections in the nineteenth...

Cheap Electrodes Turn Salt Water Into Disinfectant, and Graphite Beats Platinum

Sodium hypochlorite, the active ingredient in household bleach, has quietly become one of the world’s most essential chemicals. It disinfects...

After the Frost: Damaged Plants Bounce Back Stronger Across the Northern Hemisphere

When a late-spring frost sweeps across a landscape, the damage can look devastating: young leaves blackened at the edges, tender...

New Divergence Measures Bring Sharper Uncertainty Handling to Fuzzy Decision Making

When experts rate a candidate, a product, or a medical diagnosis, their judgments are rarely crisp yes-or-no answers. A scout...

Guidelines Told Surgeons to Stop, But Rates of Preventive Mastectomy Barely Budged