Bioengineering

Robots could become a lot more 'sensitive' thanks to new artificial skins and sensor technologies developed by European scientists. Leading...

Transplantation of human stem cells in an experiment conducted at the University of Wisconsin-Madison improved survival and muscle function in...

Inspired by the way plants grow toward light sources, a phenomenon known as phototropism, bioengineers from the University of California,...

A new study by researchers in the US has shown that an ancient virus can be modified to help in...

Using only biomolecules (such as DNA and enzymes), scientists at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have developed and constructed an...

Some bacteria grow electrical hair that lets them link up in big biological circuits, according to a University of Southern...

The Swiss entrepreneur and philanthropist will enable the Wyss Institute to advance its efforts to find solutions to complex bioengineering...

Researchers from Queen Mary, University of London have led the largest sequencing study of human disease to date, investigating the...

Baby’s life saved with groundbreaking 3D printed device from University of Michigan that restored his breathing. Every day, their baby...

Future teams of subterranean search and rescue robots may owe their success to the lowly fire ant, a much-despised insect...

Bacteria on a surface wander around and often organize into highly resilient communities known as biofilms. It turns out that...

Humacyte, Inc., announced the accomplishment of significant milestones in the clinical development of its innovative bioengineered blood vessel technology –...

From the chimera in Greek mythology to the sphinx in ancient Egypt, humans have imagined making creatures from pieces of...

MIT engineers have transformed bacterial cells into living calculators that can compute logarithms, divide, and take square roots, using three...

Zhenan Bao, a professor of chemical engineering at Stanford, has developed a heart monitor thinner than a dollar bill and...

Scientists at Oregon Health & Science University and the Oregon National Primate Research Center (ONPRC) have successfully reprogrammed human skin...

It’s a familiar scenario – a patient receives a medical implant and days later, the body attacks the artificial valve...

When cells suffer too much DNA damage, they are usually forced to undergo programmed cell death, or apoptosis. However, cancer...

The US team fitted two rats with devices called brain-to-brain interfaces that let the animals collaborate on simple tasks to...

Two Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) researchers — a stem cell biologist and a practicing cardiologist at Brigham and Women’s...