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Harvard Bioengineer Team Creates “ Cyborg” Tissue
The world’s first hybrid of living cells and electronic components were created at Harvard University by a bioengineering team.
MIT is bioengineering bacteria to turn CO2 into fuel
Research scientists at MIT look to be on the brink of solving two big problems with one tiny bacteria. They’ve...
A GPS in Your DNA
Scientists have devised a method for more precisely determining the geographical location of a person's ancestral origins based on a...
Bioengineered Meat
A burger grown in a laboratory. Sounds like science-fiction? Well up until very recently it probably was but now the...
The Velveteen Robot
Researchers at MIT, Harvard, and Seoul National University have created a robotic worm. “So what?” you ask. They’re also making...
Rewriting DNA to Understand What It Says
Our ability to “read” DNA has made tremendous progress in the past few decades, but the ability to understand and...
Bioengineers Make DNA Into a Living Flash Drive
Bioengineers looking to turn microbes into manufacturers have longed for a kit of components as regular and predictable as those...
Bioengineered Follicles Grow Hair On Bald Mice
The method devised by Professor Tsuji’s team involves reconstructing hair follicle germs from adult epithelial stem cells and cultured dermal...
Researchers implant Biofuel Cell in Living Snail
Researchers led by Evgeny Katz, the Milton Kerker Chaired Professor of Colloid Science at Clarkson University, have implanted a biofuel...
Radio waves remotely triggered the release of insulin in mice
Researchers have remotely activated genes inside living animals, a proof of concept that could one day lead to medical procedures...
Science fiction comes to life in Italian lab
Once the preserve of science fiction, increasingly sophisticated robotic devices are vying for a place side by side with humans...
New generation bionics – wireless and touch-sensitive
Other researchers are developing prosthetic skin which might wrap around a bionic limb and feed back sensory information to the...
Brain activity decoded to play back heard words
Neuroscientists may one day be able to hear the imagined speech of a patient unable to speak due to stroke...
DNA motors on
With the relentless rise of DNA nanotechnology's popularity, Emma Davies explores the role chemistry has played in its success As...
A bionic prosthetic eye that speaks the language of your brain
On the grand scale of things, we know so very little about the brain. Our thick-headedness isn’t quite cosmological in...
Researchers Turn Viruses Into Molecular Legos
Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, have turned a benign virus into an engineering tool for assembling structures that...
Bionic Bacteria May Help Make New Drugs, Biofuels
A strain of genetically enhanced bacteria developed by researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies may pave the way...
Scientists unveil tools for rewriting the code of life
New technology from MIT and Harvard can edit DNA at the genome scale, giving cells novel functions. MIT and Harvard...
‘Human Breast Milk’ From Bioengineered Cows
Chinese scientists have produced a herd of bioengineered cows that make milk that could substitute for human breast milk --...
Bionic Legs
The robotic exoskeleton eLegs could be a game changer for spinal cord injury rehabilitation
