Slowing down DNA with light
The Opto-electrical effect can be used to control the passage of DNA molecules through nanopore sensors, thereby leading to more...
Microbe Computers
Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron is one of the good guys. Known simply as Bt, it is an abundant member of the estimated...
Daydreaming simulated by computer model
Scientists have created a virtual model of the brain that daydreams like humans do. Researchers created the computer model based...
Breakthrough for Cancer Drug Delivery
Today, scientists from IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Singapore's Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN) published a breakthrough drug-delivery technique, demonstrating...
The secrets of how memories can be encoded in living tissues
Tufts University biologists using new, automated training and testing techniques have found that planarian flatworms store memory outside their brains...
Bioengineered Tooth
Bioengineers have developed a new method of replacing missing teeth with a bioengineered material generated from a person's own gum...
Artificial blood made in Romania
A team of researchers of the Babes-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, a city in NW Romania, has created a recipe for...
Light enhances brain activity
Light enhances brain activity during a cognitive task even in some people who are totally blind, according to a study...
Mini-neural computer in the brain
When you look at the hands of a clock or the streets on a map, your brain is effortlessly performing...
Need Different Types of Tissue? Just Print Them!
What sounds like a dream of the future has already been the subject of research for a few years: simply...
Bioinformatics Breakthrough: High Quality Transcriptome from as Few as Fifty Cells
Bioengineers from the University of California, San Diego have created a new method for analyzing RNA transcripts from samples of...
Why Engineers Want To Put B Vitamins In 3-D Printers
In medicine, the printers are already making prosthetic hands, hearing aid cases and parts of human ears. This riboflavin-rich material...
Natural Compound Can Be Used for 3-D Printing of Medical Implants
Bioengineers from North Carolina State University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Laser Zentrum Hannover have discovered...
Programming DNA for Molecular Robots
Embracing the idea that molecules can be programmed much like a computer, researchers can now perform remarkable feats on a...
Light as Medicine? Researchers Explain How
Multiple sclerosis (MS) causes progressive paralysis by destroying nerve cells and the spinal cord. It interrupts vision, balance and even...
Embryonic-Like Stem Cells Created from Mature Cells
Bioengineers at the University of California, Berkeley, have shown that physical cues can replace certain chemicals when nudging mature cells...
Critical Tool for Brain Research Derived from Basic Science of Single Celled Algae
The poster child for basic research might well be a one-celled green algae found in ordinary lakes and ponds. Amazingly,...
Researchers Advance Toward Engineering ‘Wildly New Genome’
In two parallel projects, researchers have created new genomes inside the bacterium E. coli in ways that test the limits...
Amputees May Feel Touches with Limbs Linked to Brain
Our ability to grasp and manipulate objects relies on feedback from our sense of touch. Without these signals from the...