Bioengineering

Researchers from North Carolina State University have found a way of binding peptides to the surface of gallium nitride (GaN)...

As the main component of connective tissue in the body, fibroblasts are the most common type of cell. Taking advantage...

White adipose tissue stores excess calories as fat that can be released for use in other organs during fasting. Mammals...

Changing flesh to stone sounds like the work of a witch in a fairy tale. But a new technique to...

Researchers at Université Laval's Faculty of Science and Engineering and Centre for Optics, Photonics and Lasers have developed smart textiles...

Bioengineers have created a new computer model that allows them to design the most complex three-dimensional DNA shapes ever produced,...

The ruby red rows of tomatoes at the local grocery store don’t come off the vine in such a pretty...

The new transport system for DNA vaccines could help treat HIV, malaria, HPV and other major illnesses University at Buffalo...

Bioengineers at the University of California, San Diego have discovered that mouse embryos are contemplating their cellular fates in the...

Researchers have made great progress in recent years in the design and creation of biological circuits — systems that, like...

Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) researchers, representing five Harvard departments and affiliated institutions as well as the Massachusetts Institute of...

Engineers have transformed the genome of the bacterium E. coli into a long-term storage device for memory. They envision that...

An electronic "tongue" could one day sample food and drinks as a quality check before they hit store shelves. Or...

The loss of eyesight, often caused by retinal degeneration, is a life-altering health issue for many people, especially as they...

It sounds like something from the scene in Star Wars where Master Yoda instructs the young Luke Skywalker to use...

After more than 20 years of research, a team of scientists are bioengineering penises in the lab which may soon...

The fast and safe technique developed at the Salk Institute circumvents problems that have hindered regenerative medicine. Scanning electron micrograph...

Researchers from North Carolina State University, Duke University and the University of Copenhagen have created the world’s largest DNA origami,...

Regenerative medicine researchers at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center have addressed a major challenge in the quest to build replacement...

Human articular cartilage defects can be treated with nasal septum cells. Researchers at the University and the University Hospital of...