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

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

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

UC Davis researchers have successfully used a custom designed protein and gene delivery system to restore normal heart rhythms in pigs with electronic pacemakers, reducing...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Viruses subvert their hosts to pump out masses of new viruses. In an unusual twist, a researcher reports in the May 3 issue of Science...