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Bio-inspired Toughest Ceramic Mimics Mother Of Pearl
Biomimicry – technological innovation inspired by nature – is one of the hottest ideas in science but has yet to...
Bioengineering The Heart Piece By Piece
Some day, heart attack survivors might have a patch of laboratory-grown muscle placed in their heart, to replace areas that...
1st Woman With Bionic Arm
Claudia Mitchell, who lives in Ellicott City, is the fourth person — and first woman — to receive a “bionic”...
Researchers Move Biotechnology Closer To Replacing Electronic Pacemakers
UC Davis researchers have successfully used a custom designed protein and gene delivery system to restore normal heart rhythms in...
Bioengineered bladders successful in patients
Bladders engineered in the laboratory from patients' own cells and then implanted into the body have succeeded in their first...
MIT establishes biological engineering major
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty yesterday approved a new course of study for undergraduates, in biological engineering, the first...
Scientists’ bioengineering feat
A man has enjoyed his first real dinner in nine years after a pioneering operation to rebuild his jaw using...
Synthetic biology applies engineering approach to biological components
"We're going to be able to write DNA. What do we want to say?" Professor Drew Endy of biological engineering...
Dog genome assembled
MIT researchers and colleagues have released the first draft of the dog genome sequence, which could aid the characterization of...
Bioengineers create a new approach to tissue engineering
Bioengineers report a new approach to creating three-dimensional samples of human tissue that could push researchers closer to their ultimate...
Bioengineered nanomachines
Nano-circuit fabrication using a living bacterium? Science fiction seems to have met with reality with the news that researchers at...
RNA pioneer looks back
DNA makes RNA makes protein. In retrospect, it couldn't be clearer. But to Alexander Rich and the other pioneers trying...
Biorubber opens doors for tissue engineering
Scientists from around the world have been contacting an MIT laboratory for samples of "biorubber," a new material with myriad...
Viruses put to work making high-tech materials
Viruses subvert their hosts to pump out masses of new viruses. In an unusual twist, a researcher reports in the...
Researchers tailors cell jackets to inhibit cancer growth
MIT scientists wielding molecular scissors have shown for the first time that the sugar jackets of cancer cells can be...
Researchers control biological materials with radio waves
It's not exactly "ET, phone home," but researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology report in the January 10 issue...
The Artificial Womb Is Born
The artificial womb exists. In Tokyo, researchers have developed a technique called EUFI -- extrauterine fetal incubation. They have taken...
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