Bioengineering

Oscar M. Curet, Ph.D., in FAU’s Department of Ocean and Mechanical Engineering (far right), has been observing how animals move...

Eggs can be ‘tricked’ into developing into an embryo without fertilisation, but the resulting embryos, called parthenogenotes, die after a...

Credits: UCLA Broad Stem Cell Research Center 3-D bioengineered lung-like tissue (left) resembles adult human lung (right).By coating tiny gel...

Sixteen MIT graduate students are among the 2017 cohort of Siebel Foundation Scholars hailing from the world’s top graduate programs...

Credit: © Photo: Barbara Frommann / University of Bonn Research into plant cells is far from complete. Scientists under the...

A new technique invented at MIT can precisely measure the growth of many individual cells simultaneously. “The device provides new...

Credit: Vetmeduni Vienna Hibernation has long been considered the secret behind the relatively long lifespan of the edible dormouse. However,...

Scientists at the University of Basel, ETH Zurich, and NCCR Molecular Systems Engineering have developed an artificial metalloenzyme that catalyses...

Credit: Ajayan Group/Rice University HOUSTON – (Sept. 2, 2016) – Flakes of graphene welded together into solid materials may be...

Biology is the world’s greatest manufacturing platform, according to MIT spinout Ginkgo Bioworks. The synthetic-biology startup is re-engineering yeast to...

Nature abounds with examples of mutualistic relationships. Think of bees pollinating flowers whose nectar nourishes the bees, or clownfish that...

Pictured is a fluorescently labeled endothelial cell monolayer, pseudocolorized in blue/green, and imaged using spectral confocal microscopy. One cell has...

MIT graduate student George Ni holds a bubble-wrapped, sponge-like device that soaks up natural sunlight and heats water to boiling...

A new technique for programming human stem cells to produce different types of tissue on demand may ultimately allow personalized...