Making an old brain young
The flip of a single molecular switch helps create the mature neuronal connections that allow the brain to bridge the ...
Modified bacteria turn waste into fat for fuel
The Rice lab of bioengineer Ka-Yiu San is part of a recently announced $25 million United States Department of Agriculture ...
Human Y Chromosome Much Older
The discovery and analysis of an extremely rare African American Y chromosome pushes back the time of the most ...
National Taiwan University -Taida Team
National Taiwan University is a national co-educational research university located in Taipei, Taiwan. In Taiwan, it is colloquially known as ...
Google Map of human metabolism
A "Google Map" model of human metabolism has been produced by an international team of bioengineers, offering "improved predictive capability" ...
First functional HIV cure
A team of researchers from UMass Medical School, the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center and the University of Mississippi Medical Center ...
Viruses Can Have Immune Systems
A study published today in the journal Nature reports that a viral predator of the cholera bacteria has stolen the ...
Wireless brain sensor
In a significant advance for brain-machine interfaces, engineers at Brown University have developed a novel wireless, broadband, rechargeable, fully implantable ...
Eyes Work Without Connection to Brain
For the first time, scientists have shown that transplanted eyes located far outside the head in a vertebrate animal model ...
Fat worms inch researchers toward
Fat worms confirm that researchers from Michigan State University have successfully bioengineered a plant with oily leaves – a feat ...
Blueprint for an Artificial Brain
Scientists have long been dreaming about building a computer that would work like a brain. This is because a ...
A “Passport” for the Immune System
The body’s immune system exists to identify and destroy foreign objects, whether they are bacteria, viruses, flecks of dirt or ...
Unlimited source of human kidney cells
Bioengineers at the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN) have successfully generated human kidney cells from human embryonic stem cells ...
Lessons from cockroaches could inform robotics
Running cockroaches start to recover from being shoved sideways before their dawdling nervous system kicks in to tell their ...
Bioengineer cells to fight diabetes
For years researchers have been searching for a way to treat diabetics by reactivating their insulin-producing beta cells, with limited ...
James Watson: How we discovered DNA
Nobel laureate James Watson opens TED2005 with the frank and funny story of how he and his research partner, Francis ...
Muscle and nerve controlled arm prosthesis
For the first time an operation has been conducted, at Sahlgrenska University Hospital, where electrodes have been permanently implanted in ...
New Society with Robots
Humanity came one step closer in January to being able to replicate itself, thanks to the EU’s approval of ...
Bioengineered Animals
Two genetically engineered farm animals reported illustrate how far from Frankenstein’s stitched-together monster animal biotechnology has come. One of ...
Allan Jones: A map of the brain
How can we begin to understand the way the brain works? The same way we begin to understand a city: ...