A burger grown in a laboratory. Sounds like science-fiction? Well up until very recently it probably was but now the...

The Canadian Medical and Biological Engineering Society is Canada's principal society for engineering in medicine and biology. The Society's aims are...

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Researchers at MIT, Harvard, and Seoul National University have created a robotic worm. “So what?” you ask. They’re also making...

Our ability to “read” DNA has made tremendous progress in the past few decades, but the ability to understand and...

Bioengineers looking to turn microbes into manufacturers have longed for a kit of components as regular and predictable as those...

The method devised by Professor Tsuji’s team involves reconstructing hair follicle germs from adult epithelial stem cells and cultured dermal...

Researchers led by Evgeny Katz, the Milton Kerker Chaired Professor of Colloid Science at Clarkson University, have implanted a biofuel...

Researchers have remotely activated genes inside living animals, a proof of concept that could one day lead to medical procedures...

Once the preserve of science fiction, increasingly sophisticated robotic devices are vying for a place side by side with humans...

Other researchers are developing prosthetic skin which might wrap around a bionic limb and feed back sensory information to the...

The Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience (IBB) opened its doors in 1995 and since that time it...

  Erasmus programme is a great opportunity to spend between 3 and 12 months in another European country, and have...

Neuroscientists may one day be able to hear the imagined speech of a patient unable to speak due to stroke...

With the relentless rise of DNA nanotechnology's popularity, Emma Davies explores the role chemistry has played in its success As...

On the grand scale of things, we know so very little about the brain. Our thick-headedness isn’t quite cosmological in...

Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, have turned a benign virus into an engineering tool for assembling structures that...

A strain of genetically enhanced bacteria developed by researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies may pave the way...