Bioengineering

It sounds like something from the scene in Star Wars where Master Yoda instructs the young Luke Skywalker to use...

After more than 20 years of research, a team of scientists are bioengineering penises in the lab which may soon...

The fast and safe technique developed at the Salk Institute circumvents problems that have hindered regenerative medicine. Scanning electron micrograph...

Researchers from North Carolina State University, Duke University and the University of Copenhagen have created the world’s largest DNA origami,...

Regenerative medicine researchers at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center have addressed a major challenge in the quest to build replacement...

Human articular cartilage defects can be treated with nasal septum cells. Researchers at the University and the University Hospital of...

Lowering internal eye pressure is currently the only way to treat glaucoma. A tiny eye implant developed by Stephen Quake's...

MIT chemical engineers have devised a new implantable tissue scaffold coated with bone growth factors that are released slowly over...

Recent advances that allow the precise editing of genomes now raise the possibility that fruit and other crops might be...

Bioengineers have created three-dimensional brain-like tissue that functions like and has structural features similar to tissue in the rat brain...

In every cell in your body, tiny protein motors are toiling away to keep you going. Moving muscles, dividing cells,...

Scientists at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) have developed a scalable, next-generation platelet bioreactor to generate fully functional human platelets...

Researchers develop a compact artificial lung that could be worn in a fanny pack and received a $3.4 million federal...

Whitehead Institute scientists have genetically and enzymatically modified red blood cells to carry a range of valuable payloads—from drugs, to...