Bioengineering
Bioengineering
Robotic Plant Grows Roots
Plants could soon have robotic counterparts. Barbara Mazzolai from the Italian Institute of Technology in Genoa and colleagues are creating...
Plastic from Grass
Nearly all the plastics sold today come from petroleum and aren’t biodegradable. But researchers at Metabolix in Cambridge, Massachusetts, are...
Glass Project for Blinds
Recent advances in optogenetics have opened the possibility of restoring light sensitivity to vision cells using a simple injection and...
The first bionic eye to be approved for patients in the U.S. is getting software upgrades.
The FDA-approved Argus II Retinal Prosthesis System from Second Sight Medical Products transmits images from a small, eye-glass-mounted camera wirelessly...
Micro-Machines for the Human Body
Tiny sensors and motors are everywhere, telling your smartphone screen to rotate and your camera to focus. Now, a team...
Scientists Visualize How Cancer Chromosome Abnormalities Form in Living Cells
For the first time, scientists have directly observed events that lead to the formation of a chromosome abnormality that is...
Wiring diagram of retinal neurons is first step toward mapping the human brain.
The human brain has 100 billion neurons, connected to each other in networks that allow us to interpret the world...
Stanford’s bioengineering boot camp for high schoolers
High school students in a Stanford bioengineering boot camp tackled real-world projects, such as using sensors to ensure that surgeons...
Human Epigenomic Map Extended
Ten years ago, scientists announced the end of the Human Genome Project, the international attempt to learn which combination of...
IBM Research reveals new silicon chip foundation inspired by the human brain
Scientists from IBM unveiled a software ecosystem designed for programming silicon chips that have an architecture inspired by the function,...
Researchers find key signal that guides brain development
Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have decoded an important molecular signal that guides the development of a key...
World’s first lab-grown burger to be cooked and eaten
The world's first lab-grown burger is to be unveiled and eaten at a news conference in London on Monday. Scientists...
Soft Robotic Devices Using Water-Based Gels
Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a new technique for creating devices out of a water-based hydrogel material...
Researchers have Fabricated a Bioartificial Ear
Researchers have fabricated a bioartificial ear that looks and mechanically behaves like a human one, as revealed in Journal of...
Microfluidic Breakthrough in Biotechnology
Chemical flasks and inconvenient chemostats for cultivation of bacteria are likely soon to be discarded. Researchers from the Institute of...
New teeth grown from urine
Researchers have grown rudimentary teeth out of the most unlikely of sources, human urine.The results, published in Cell Regeneration Journal,...
Gold Nanofibers in Bioengineered Heart Tissue
Heart tissue sustains irreparable damage in the wake of a heart attack. Because cells in the heart cannot multiply and...
False memories implanted into mice
Scientists have created a false memory in mice by manipulating neurons that bear the memory of a place. The work...
The first commercial tDCS headset that lets you safely overclock your brain
After an interminable wait, the first brain-boosting tDCS headset has finally received FCC approval and will begin shipping in the...
Teaching a microbe to make fuel
Genetically modified organism could turn carbon dioxide or waste products into a gasoline-compatible transportation fuel A humble soil bacterium called...