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‘Activating’ RNA Takes DNA On a Loop Through Time and Space
Long segments of RNA—encoded in our DNA but not translated into protein—are key to physically manipulating DNA in order to...
Square Living Cell
Living cells change their shape by applying mechanical tension to their extracellular matrix adhesions and pulling themselves flat against their...
uBiome Project
Jessica Richman, a PhD student at Oxford University, has raised more than $290,000 from over 1,300 people who have paid...
Bioengineering cells for more efficient biofuel production
In the search for renewable alternatives to gasoline, heavy alcohols such as isobutanol are promising candidates. Not only do they...
Project Seeks to Build Human Brain
The Obama administration is planning a decade-long scientific effort to examine the workings of the human brain and build a...
Bionic Proteins
Researchers developed nano-machines which recreate principal activities of proteins. They present the first versatile and modular example of a fully...
Brain Prostheses Create a Sense of Touch
The rats sensed the light as a sensation of touch after Duke neurobiologist Miguel Nicolelis and his team fitted the...
Building a Biochemistry Lab on a Chip
Miniaturized laboratory-on-chip systems promise rapid, sensitive, and multiplexed detection of biological samples for medical diagnostics, drug discovery, and high-throughput screening....
Chronic pain alters how DNA works in brain
Epigenetic changes may be caused by environmental factors, including diet, exposure to contaminants, and social conditions such as poverty—and may...
Streamlined engineering for synthetic biology
Researchers are injecting ever more conscious design into their bioengineering workflow.
Bionic eye approved
The Food and Drug Administration has approved what's being called the first bionic eye, which may restore limited vision for...
‘Robot’ cells answer call to arms
By thinking of cells as programmable robots, researchers at Rice University hope to someday direct how they grow into the...
USC scientists turn off the ability to feel cold
USC neuroscientists have isolated chills at a cellular level, identifying the sensory network of neurons in the skin that relays...
Human brain cells made from reprogrammed skin cells
Published in the journal Cell Stem Cell, the new study is the first successful attempt to use human induced pluripotent...
RNA sets the ‘rhythm’ for protein folding
Your average musical melody doesn't chug along at a single, mechanical speed. It mixes whole notes, quarter notes, sixteenth notes...
Cell circuits remember their history
MIT engineers have created genetic circuits in bacterial cells that not only perform logic functions, but also remember the results,...
Bionic Eye
A radical new approach to “bionic eye” implants holds out the hope of restoring near-normal sight to the blind,...
Device Made of DNA Inserted Into Bacterial Cell
Scientists hope that one day in the distant future, miniature, medically-savvy computers will roam our bodies, detecting early-stage diseases and...
Paralyzed Man Uses Thoughts Alone to Control Robot Arm
Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and UPMC describe in PLoS ONE how an electrode array sitting...
Bioengineer to use hybrid imaging system to see deep tissue
A UT Arlington bioengineer has been awarded a $407,163 National Science Foundation Early Career Development grant to use light and...
