Bioengineering

When Manu Prakash, PhD, wants to impress lab visitors with the durability of his Origami-based paper microscope, he throws it...

It may be the birth of a new supermaterial – not long ago, spider silk materials were considered science fiction....

Medical implants, complex interfaces between brain and machine or remotely controlled insects: Recent developments combining machines and organisms have great...

Fresh banana, a waft of flowers, blueberry: the scents in Shota Atsumi's laboratory in the UC Davis Department of Chemistry...

A team of Bio-X researchers at Stanford has developed mice whose sensitivity to pain can be dialed up or down...

In a significant advance for the growing field of synthetic biology, Rice University bioengineers have created a toolkit of genes...

For the first time, researchers have shown that an essential biological process known as protein synthesis can be studied in...

Brains are the most powerful computers known. Now microchips built to mimic insects’ nervous systems have been shown to successfully...

There's promising news from the front on efforts to produce fuels through artificial photosynthesis. A new study by Berkeley Lab...

When swimming around, bacteria aren't good with the "pool rules." In small quantities, they'll follow the lanes, but put enough...

Research team paves way to scale up manufacturing of large objects using a fully compostable bioplastic made from shrimp shells...

Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Washington University in St. Louis have developed a new device that...

On February 25 and 26 the US Food and Drug Administration discussed the possibility of legalising three-parent embryos – or,...

London designer and researcher Shamees Aden is developing a concept for running shoes that would be 3D-printed from synthetic biological...

Scientists at EPFL have greatly improved the effectiveness of growth factors, paving new strategies for regenerative medicine. When we are...

Low-cost urine test developed by MIT engineers amplifies signals from growing tumors to detect disease. Cancer rates in developing nations...

Second-year bioengineering doctoral student Sylvia Natividad-Diaz may have found a way around a persistent obstacle in the treatment of HIV/AIDS—identifying...

High-tech glasses developed at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis may help surgeons visualize cancer cells, which glow...

In a study published today in Nature Communications, a research team led by Ken Shepard, professor of electrical engineering and...

A cochlear implant that can be wirelessly recharged would use the natural microphone of the middle ear rather than a...