Bioengineering

Novel microchips imitate the brain’s information processing in real time. Neuroinformatics researchers from the University of Zurich and ETH Zurich...

Hair loss is usually genetically determined but can also be the result of aging or chronic illness. It is often...

Although human cells have an estimated 20,000 genes, only a fraction of those are turned on at any given time,...

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have identified a protein that could help physicians decide what type of therapy patients...

You are not just yourself. You are also the thousands of microbes that you carry. In fact, they represent an...

Earlier this month, five researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, put out a paper discussing the possible development of...

Researchers have identified a yet unknown bacterial cell-cell communication system. The micrograph shows the bacterium Photorhabdus luminescens. The cells labeled...

Researchers have developed an "intelligent knife" that can tell surgeons immediately whether the tissue they are cutting is cancerous or...

An artificial bone scaffold produced by researchers in South Korea could enhance the treatment of bone damage and defects through...

A novel material with world record-breaking surface area and water adsorption abilities has been synthesized by researchers from Uppsala University,...

Scientists at UMass Medical School are the first to establish that a naturally occurring X chromosome “off switch” can be...

Artificial and natural knowledge researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago have IQ-tested one of the best available artificial...

Cell therapies may stop or reverse the pain and disability of degenerative disc disease and the loss of material between...

Artificial blood vessels which can survive in the body for up to nine months have been created from stem cells...

Proper tissue function and regeneration is supported by stem cells, which reside in so-called niches. New work from Carnegie’s Yixian...

Introductory chemistry students learn that oil and water repel each other. So do other hydrophobic substances, which carry no electric...

Researchers have long searched for a durable artificial heart that can work as efficiently as the one supplied by nature....

Scientists have created genetically-engineered mice with artificial human chromosomes in every cell of their bodies, as part of a series...

Only three months after she became the youngest person to receive a bioengineered organ, two-year-old Hannah Warren has died. In...

Chemists from North Carolina State University have performed a DNA-based logic-gate operation within a human cell. The research may pave...