Bioengineering
Bioengineering
LED treatments enhance lettuce phytochemicals, antioxidants
BEIJING, CHINA/NOTTINGHAM, UK – Increasingly, vegetables are being efficiently grown using soilless techniques such as hydroponics. Hydroponic systems are favored...
University of Leicester scientists identify way to ‘sniff’ ripeness of fruit
Credit: University of Leicester Scientists from the University of Leicester have, for the first time, identified a way to ‘sniff’...
Biofeedback system designed to control photosynthetic lighting
Credit: Photo courtesy Michael T. Martin. ATHENS, GA – Controlled environment agriculture is rapidly becoming an important part of the...
New material temporarily tightens skin
CAMBRIDGE, MA — Scientists at MIT, Massachusetts General Hospital, Living Proof, and Olivo Labs have developed a new material that...
Does this ankle need an X-ray? There’s an app for that
The Ottawa Rules, a set of rules used around the world to help health professionals decide when to order x-rays...
Mass. General-developed device may provide rapid diagnosis of bacterial infections
A team of Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) investigators has developed a device with the potential of shortening the time required...
SkinTrack technology turns arm into smartwatch touchpad
PITTSBURGH — Ever since the advent of smartwatches, technologists have been looking to expand interactions beyond the confines of the...
Mimicking the ingenuity of nature
Nature shows how to do it: Photosynthesis is a process used by plants to create energy-rich organic compounds, usually in...
Regenerating blood vessels gets $2.7 million grant
Biomedical engineers in the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin have received a three-year, $2.7...
Bacteria use traffic-cop-like mechanism to infect gut
Credit: Shelly Hanks, WSU Photo Services A study has found that a syringe-like device used to invade intestinal cells also...
Fiber optic biosensor-integrated microfluidic chip to detect glucose levels
Credit: Dr. A. P. Zhang and team, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University WASHINGTON – Insulin deficiency and hyperglycemia are two...
New method for exhaustively isolating olfactory receptors responding to specific odorants
A research group led by Osaka University and Panasonic Corporation developed a method for making a prompt, exhaustive isolation of...
Researchers create artificial protein to control assembly of buckyballs
HANOVER, N.H. – A Dartmouth College scientist and his collaborators have created an artificial protein that organizes new materials at...
UW team stores digital images in DNA — and retrieves them perfectly
Credit: Tara Brown Photography/University of Washington Technology companies routinely build sprawling data centers to store all the baby pictures, financial...
Methods used to create textiles also could help manufacture human tissues
COLUMBIA, Mo. – Tissue engineering is a process that uses novel biomaterials seeded with stem cells to grow and replace...
Protective effect of genetically modified cord blood on spinal cord injury in rats
Transplantation of genetically modified cells carrying a transgene has a greater stimulating effect on the regeneration of post-traumatic central nervous...
Scientists to unlock the secrets of DNA sequence
The prevailing hypothesis has suggested that the the functions of DNA, such as the way the DNA is organized, largely...
Novel optogenetic tool
Blue on, yellow off: using different-coloured light, researchers are able to switch signalling pathways in the brain on and off....
Promising new blood test is first of its kind to detect liver scarring
Newcastle scientists and medics have developed a new type of genetic blood test that diagnoses scarring in the liver –...
University of Sussex research brings ‘smart hands’ closer to reality
Using your skin as a touchscreen has been brought a step closer after UK scientists successfully created tactile sensations on...