Bionic Nose
Swedish and Spanish engineers have created a system of sensors that detects fruit odours more effectively than the human sense...
Bioengineered Contact Lens
It has finally been done: A team of US and Finnish bioengineers have embedded an antenna, radio receiver, control circuitry,...
U.S.D.A. approves non-bioengineered label
The Food Safety and Inspection Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture has approved use of a label for meat...
Bacteria Communicate to Help Each Other Resist Antibiotics
New research from Western University unravels a novel means of communication that allows bacteria such as Burkholderia cenocepacia (B. cenocepacia)...
Study of Mitochondrial DNA Ties Ancient Remains to Living Descendants
Researchers report that they have found a direct genetic link between the remains of Native Americans who lived thousands of...
Scientists transplant lab-grown human liver
Japanese scientists announced a major advance in regenerative medicine Wednesday after rudimentary liver ‘buds’ that were grown in a lab...
Fertility drug appears to stop Ebola virus
A class of drugs that includes treatments for breast cancer and infertility appears able to inhibit the deadly, incurable Ebola...
New Mechanism for Human Gene Expression Discovered
In a study that could change the way scientists view the process of protein production in humans, University of Chicago...
Tiny Eye Telescope Brings Back A World Of Sight
This tiny telescope gets implanted in one eye and magnifies the image to make up for "holes" in the person's...
A 700.000 year old horse gets its genome sequenced
It is nothing short of a world record in DNA research that scientists at the Centre for GeoGenetics at the...
Breakthrough discovery into the regulation of a key cancer drug target
There’s not much difference between what makes a man and what makes his beer - at least at the molecular...
Fetus donates stem cells to heal mother’s heart
Mouse fetuses will give up stem cells to repair their mother's heart. The discovery could explain why half the women...
A ‘Memory Machine’ Is Being Tested In Humans
Theodore Berger of the University of Southern California is developing a prosthesis to restore memory, by replacing a circuit in...
Mimicking Living Cells: Synthesizing Ribosomes
Synthetic biology researchers at Northwestern University, working with partners at Harvard Medical School, have for the first time synthesized ribosomes...
Mouse cloned from drop of blood
Circulating blood cells collected from the tail of a donor mouse were used to produce the clone, a team at...
Congrats Dr. Ugur OZVEREN
Uğur ÖZVEREN, who is founder of the bioengineering society in 2002, received his doctorate degree in chemical engineering. Congrats Dr....
Past Brain Activation Revealed in Scans
What if experts could dig into the brain, like archaeologists, and uncover the history of past experiences? This ability might...
Video Game Tech Used to Steer Roaches On Autopilot
North Carolina State University researchers are using video game technology to remotely control cockroaches on autopilot, with a computer steering...
Fire with Fire : HIV used to Fight Cancer
The HIV virus may be about to become a new weapon in the fight against cancer as initial tests have...
New nerve and muscle interfaces
The Reliable Neural-Interface Technology (RE-NET) program from DARPA, the Pentagon’s advanced research group, has a vision: direct, reliable connections between...
