Bioengineering

The ability to create conducting polymer films in a variety of shapes, thicknesses and surface properties rapidly and inexpensively will...

Programming living cells offers the prospect of harnessing sophisticated biological machinery for transformative applications in energy, agriculture, water remediation and...

When you get sick, your physician may take a sample of your blood, send it to the lab and wait...

Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have engineered a bacterium whose genetic material includes an added pair of DNA...

Rice University bioengineers have created a hydrogel that instantly turns from liquid to semisolid at close to body temperature –...

For many people, "plastic" is a one-word analog for environmental disaster. It is made from precious petroleum, after all, and...

Almost every biological process involves sensing the presence of a certain chemical. Finely tuned over millions of years of evolution,...

The latest organ-on-a-chip from Harvard's Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering reproduces the structure, functions and cellular make-up of bone...

Researchers at Columbia Engineering announced today that they have successfully grown fully functional human cartilage in vitro from human stem...

In the next few months, highly secretive US military researchers say they will unveil new advances toward developing a brain...

It's a familiar trope in science fiction: In enemy territory, activate your cloaking device. And real-world viruses use similar tactics...

Wellcome Trust-funded stem cell research has produced red blood cells fit for transfusion into humans, paving the way for the...

Scientists at the University of Basel report first ever successful nose reconstruction surgery using cartilage grown in the laboratory. Cartilage...

Scientists reported today the first human recipients of laboratory-grown vaginal organs. A research team led by Anthony Atala, M.D., director...

It's a computer – inside a cockroach. Nano-sized entities made of DNA that are able to perform the same kind...

On the less glamorous side of space exploration, there’s the more practical problem of waste — in particular, what to...

In a north London hospital, scientists are growing noses, ears and blood vessels in the laboratory in a bold attempt...

With predictive modeling techniques, it is possible to predict anything from clients’ shopping habits and illnesses to a golfer’s handicap....

Researchers with the University of Florida’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences took what some would consider garbage and made...

Under the microscope, they look like art: a red dapple with green crescents, deep blue and purple spots, angular green...