Genetic tests can offer deep insights into your future health. But would you really want to know?

The University of Exeter has announced plans to build a research centre to develop strategies for diagnosing and treating diseases....

Some people dress up their pets in clothes so that they will look more like their human owners. Turns out,...

Biongineers from the universities of Sheffield and Sussex are planning on scanning the brains of bees and uploading them into...

For their pioneering work on developing a bionic eye, two University of New South Wales (UNSW) engineers have been honoured...

Bioengineers have developed a prototype ultra-sensitive sensor that would enable doctors to detect the early stages of diseases and viruses...

In a bioengineering laboratory at Stanford University, Christopher Contag, a microbiologist, is designing new approaches to “virtual” pathology.

In an extremely exciting find, scientists at Aarhus University in Denmark found a type of bacteria that creates electrical currents...

A new regulator for heart formation has been discovered by studying how embryonic stem cells adjust the packaging of their...

DNA-based imaging, computer models map cell-to-neighbor-cell organizationFrom the surface looking into a clear body of water everything from the water’s...

Bacteria in your gut may be influencing your thoughts and moods, raising the possibility that probiotics could be used to...

Kevin Warwick is most certainly the preeminent cyborg of our time. More than a decade ago he implanted an RFID...

Meet Junghae Suh, an assistant professor of bioengineering, who develops virus nanoparticles to transport DNA-based technologies for the treatment of...

Bioengineers at the University of California, San Diego have received a $9.3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health...

This year, the theme for our conference will be Translational Research. Dr. John Watson of UCSD, our outstanding plenary speaker,...

The Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia(IBEC) now has its very own YouTube channel, where viewers can watch a host of...

They built them – innovative and creative biological systems to improve medicine, energy, the environment and more. Even more impressive,...

A University of Washington bioengineer recently developed a way to make regular paper stick to medically interesting molecules. The work...

Using blue light, Duke University bioengineers have developed a system for ordering genes to produce proteins, an advance they said...

Biochips are essentially miniaturized laboratories that can perform hundreds or thousands of simultaneous biochemical reactions. Biochips enable researchers to quickly...