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Bioengineers have developed a prototype ultra-sensitive sensor that would enable doctors to detect the early stages of diseases and viruses with the naked eye, according...

In a bioengineering laboratory at Stanford University, Christopher Contag, a microbiologist, is designing new approaches to “virtual” pathology.

In an extremely exciting find, scientists at Aarhus University in Denmark found a type of bacteria that creates electrical currents on the sea floor. Despite...

A new regulator for heart formation has been discovered by studying how embryonic stem cells adjust the packaging of their DNA.

DNA-based imaging, computer models map cell-to-neighbor-cell organizationFrom the surface looking into a clear body of water everything from the water’s depth to its marine environment...

Bacteria in your gut may be influencing your thoughts and moods, raising the possibility that probiotics could be used to treat psychiatric illnesses

Kevin Warwick is most certainly the preeminent cyborg of our time. More than a decade ago he implanted an RFID chip in himself to control...

Meet Junghae Suh, an assistant professor of bioengineering, who develops virus nanoparticles to transport DNA-based technologies for the treatment of diseases.

Bioengineers at the University of California, San Diego have received a $9.3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to establish a single-cell genomics...

This year, the theme for our conference will be Translational Research. Dr. John Watson of UCSD, our outstanding plenary speaker, will describe his efforts in...

The Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia(IBEC) now has its very own YouTube channel, where viewers can watch a host of videos related to the institute...

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

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

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

Biochips are essentially miniaturized laboratories that can perform hundreds or thousands of simultaneous biochemical reactions. Biochips enable researchers to quickly screen large numbers of biological...