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Biomimicry – technological innovation inspired by nature – is one of the hottest ideas in science but has yet to...

Some day, heart attack survivors might have a patch of laboratory-grown muscle placed in their heart, to replace areas that...

Claudia Mitchell, who lives in Ellicott City, is the fourth person — and first woman — to receive a “bionic”...

UC Davis researchers have successfully used a custom designed protein and gene delivery system to restore normal heart rhythms in...

Bladders engineered in the laboratory from patients' own cells and then implanted into the body have succeeded in their first...

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty yesterday approved a new course of study for undergraduates, in biological engineering, the first...

A man has enjoyed his first real dinner in nine years after a pioneering operation to rebuild his jaw using...

"We're going to be able to write DNA. What do we want to say?" Professor Drew Endy of biological engineering...

MIT researchers and colleagues have released the first draft of the dog genome sequence, which could aid the characterization of...

Bioengineers report a new approach to creating three-dimensional samples of human tissue that could push researchers closer to their ultimate...

Nano-circuit fabrication using a living bacterium? Science fiction seems to have met with reality with the news that researchers at...

DNA makes RNA makes protein. In retrospect, it couldn't be clearer. But to Alexander Rich and the other pioneers trying...

Scientists from around the world have been contacting an MIT laboratory for samples of "biorubber," a new material with myriad...

Viruses subvert their hosts to pump out masses of new viruses. In an unusual twist, a researcher reports in the...

MIT scientists wielding molecular scissors have shown for the first time that the sugar jackets of cancer cells can be...

It's not exactly "ET, phone home," but researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology report in the January 10 issue...

The artificial womb exists. In Tokyo, researchers have developed a technique called EUFI -- extrauterine fetal incubation. They have taken...