Artificial Spleen to Treat Bloodstream Infections
The Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University announced that it was awarded a $9.25 million contract from...
Electronic implant designed to reduce obesity
UK-based scientists have designed an 'intelligent' microchip which they claim can suppress appetite.Animal trials of the electronic implant are about...
Biological Transistor Enables Computing Within Living Cells
A team of Stanford University bioengineers has taken computing beyond mechanics and electronics into the living realm of biology. They...
Bio-Batteries
Scientists at the University of East Anglia have made an important breakthrough in the quest to generate clean electricity from...
Making living matter programmable
Thirty years ago, the future lay in programming computers. Today, it’s programming cells. That was the message of panelists at...
Devoloping Sense of Smell
Previous hypotheses about the origin of these olfactory nerve cells have given credit to embryonic cells that develop into skin...
Bioengineer invents bionic eye to help the blind
UCLA bioengineering professor Wentai Liu, more than two decades of visionary research burst into the headlines last month when the...
Harvard and Sony collaborate for Organs-on-Chips
The Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University and Sony DADC announced a collaboration that will harness Sony...
Smelling Genetic Information
Tübingen and Saarland researchers identify the molecules allowing mice to sniff out the genes of other mice.
Researchers divide enzyme to conquer genetic puzzle
Rice University researchers have found a way to divide and modify enzymes to create what amounts to a genetic...
How the brain keeps track of similar but distinct memories.
Scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies have helped explain how the brain keeps track of the incredibly rich...
TMU-Tokyo 2013 iGem
The Tokyo Metropolitan University is located in the Tokyo metropolis – a most vibrant city and the world’s most populous....
Engineered immune cells battle acute leukaemia
Genetically engineered immune cells can drive an aggressive type of leukaemia into retreat, a small clinical trial suggests.
Wide support in UK for novel DNA ‘transplants’ in human egg cells
The United Kingdom moved a step closer to legalizing reproductive gene therapy techniques that could prevent children from inheriting certain...
Pinpoint proteins in cancer cells
Better diagnosis and treatment of cancer could hinge on the ability to better understand a single cell at its molecular...
Bringing Extinct Species Back to Life
The genome of an extinct Australian frog has been revived and reactivated by a team of scientists using sophisticated...
Wearable Artificial Lung
Bioengineers at the University of Pittsburgh will develop an artificial lung to serve as a bridge to transplant or...
How proteins read meta DNA code
Scientists have accurately calculated the sliding mechanism for deciphering the second genetic code written within the DNA base pair sequence....
Map of Shortcuts Between All Human Genes
Some diseases are caused by single gene mutations. Current techniques for identifying the disease-causing gene in a patient produce hundreds...
Crick's letter about DNA discovery to be sold at auction
A letter by Francis Crick, the co-discoverer of DNA, outlining the Nobel Prize-winning achievement to his young son is expected...