Bioengineering

Tufts University biologists using new, automated training and testing techniques have found that planarian flatworms store memory outside their brains...

Bioengineers have developed a new method of replacing missing teeth with a bioengineered material generated from a person's own gum...

A team of researchers of the Babes-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, a city in NW Romania, has created a recipe for...

Light enhances brain activity during a cognitive task even in some people who are totally blind, according to a study...

When you look at the hands of a clock or the streets on a map, your brain is effortlessly performing...

What sounds like a dream of the future has already been the subject of research for a few years: simply...

Bioengineers from the University of California, San Diego have created a new method for analyzing RNA transcripts from samples of...

Bioengineers from North Carolina State University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Laser Zentrum Hannover have discovered...

Embracing the idea that molecules can be programmed much like a computer, researchers can now perform remarkable feats on a...

Multiple sclerosis (MS) causes progressive paralysis by destroying nerve cells and the spinal cord. It interrupts vision, balance and even...

Bioengineers at the University of California, Berkeley, have shown that physical cues can replace certain chemicals when nudging mature cells...

The poster child for basic research might well be a one-celled green algae found in ordinary lakes and ponds. Amazingly,...

In two parallel projects, researchers have created new genomes inside the bacterium E. coli in ways that test the limits...

Our ability to grasp and manipulate objects relies on feedback from our sense of touch. Without these signals from the...

A brain region activated when people are asked to perform mathematical calculations in an experimental setting is similarly activated when...

Pointing to a Nike Flyknit Racer -- the lime-green trainers, worn by many athletes during London 2012, that use a...

Damaged or diseased organs may someday be healed with an injection of blood vessel cells, eliminating the need for donated...

University of South Florida researchers have suggested a new view of how stem cells may help repair the brain following...

It's like pulling a rabbit out of a hat. Researchers have reached inside the brain of a rat and pulled...

A research group headed by Professor Takashi Tsuji of Tokyo University of Science have successfully regenerated fully functional bioengineered salivary...