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They built them – innovative and creative biological systems to improve medicine, energy, the environment and more. Even more impressive,...

A University of Washington bioengineer recently developed a way to make regular paper stick to medically interesting molecules. The work...

Using blue light, Duke University bioengineers have developed a system for ordering genes to produce proteins, an advance they said...

Scientists from Britain and Japan shared a Nobel Prize on Monday for the discovery that adult cells can be transformed...

The internet has revolutionized global communications and now researchers at Standford University are looking to provide a similar boost to...

Bioengineer Melody Swartz got a surprise phone call three weeks ago informing her she had been selected to receive a...

Science undergraduates from 21 countries across Europe, with a third representing UK universities, participated this summer in one of the...

The world’s first hybrid of living cells and electronic components were created at Harvard University by a bioengineering team.

Research scientists at MIT look to be on the brink of solving two big problems with one tiny bacteria. They’ve...

Scientists have devised a method for more precisely determining the geographical location of a person's ancestral origins based on a...

A burger grown in a laboratory. Sounds like science-fiction? Well up until very recently it probably was but now the...

Researchers at MIT, Harvard, and Seoul National University have created a robotic worm. “So what?” you ask. They’re also making...

Our ability to “read” DNA has made tremendous progress in the past few decades, but the ability to understand and...

Bioengineers looking to turn microbes into manufacturers have longed for a kit of components as regular and predictable as those...

The method devised by Professor Tsuji’s team involves reconstructing hair follicle germs from adult epithelial stem cells and cultured dermal...

Researchers led by Evgeny Katz, the Milton Kerker Chaired Professor of Colloid Science at Clarkson University, have implanted a biofuel...

Researchers have remotely activated genes inside living animals, a proof of concept that could one day lead to medical procedures...

Once the preserve of science fiction, increasingly sophisticated robotic devices are vying for a place side by side with humans...

Other researchers are developing prosthetic skin which might wrap around a bionic limb and feed back sensory information to the...

Neuroscientists may one day be able to hear the imagined speech of a patient unable to speak due to stroke...