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The Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering uses Nature's design principles to develop bioinspired materials and devices that will transform medicine and create a more...

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

Amgen (NASDAQ: AMGN, SEHK: 4332) is an American-based multinational biopharmaceutical company headquartered in Thousand Oaks, California. Located in the Conejo Valley, Amgen is the world's...

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

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

The Canadian Medical and Biological Engineering Society is Canada's principal society for engineering in medicine and biology. The Society's aims are twofold: scientific and educational: directed...

Distant lands should draw you, people you don't know To read every book, know other's lives, you should be burning You shouldn't exchange for anything...

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

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

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

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

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

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

Once the preserve of science fiction, increasingly sophisticated robotic devices are vying for a place side by side with humans in the real world. At Italy's...

Other researchers are developing prosthetic skin which might wrap around a bionic limb and feed back sensory information to the nervous system, in theory enabling...