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Bacteria form ‘electrical cables’ on deep-sea floor
In an extremely exciting find, scientists at Aarhus University in Denmark found a type of bacteria that creates electrical currents...
Dynamics of DNA packaging helps regulate heart formation
A new regulator for heart formation has been discovered by studying how embryonic stem cells adjust the packaging of their...
Tracing how cells move and talk
DNA-based imaging, computer models map cell-to-neighbor-cell organizationFrom the surface looking into a clear body of water everything from the water’s...
Microbes manipulate your mind
Bacteria in your gut may be influencing your thoughts and moods, raising the possibility that probiotics could be used to...
Robot Powered by Rat Neurons
Kevin Warwick is most certainly the preeminent cyborg of our time. More than a decade ago he implanted an RFID...
Junghae Suh's designer therapeutics go viral to fight cancer
Meet Junghae Suh, an assistant professor of bioengineering, who develops virus nanoparticles to transport DNA-based technologies for the treatment of...
Bioengineers Lead NIH Center to Map the Gene Activities
Bioengineers at the University of California, San Diego have received a $9.3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health...
IBEC launches YouTube channel
The Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia(IBEC) now has its very own YouTube channel, where viewers can watch a host of...
iGEM Bioengineering Competition
They built them – innovative and creative biological systems to improve medicine, energy, the environment and more. Even more impressive,...
Paper-based Diagnostics
A University of Washington bioengineer recently developed a way to make regular paper stick to medically interesting molecules. The work...
Duke bioengineers use light to control gene expression
Using blue light, Duke University bioengineers have developed a system for ordering genes to produce proteins, an advance they said...
Nobel prize in physiology or medicine
Scientists from Britain and Japan shared a Nobel Prize on Monday for the discovery that adult cells can be transformed...
Stanford bioengineers introduce 'Bi-Fi'
The internet has revolutionized global communications and now researchers at Standford University are looking to provide a similar boost to...
Bioengineer wins MacArthur Foundation genius grant
Bioengineer Melody Swartz got a surprise phone call three weeks ago informing her she had been selected to receive a...
Female science undergrads dominate amgen initiative
Science undergraduates from 21 countries across Europe, with a third representing UK universities, participated this summer in one of the...
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...
