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Researchers are injecting ever more conscious design into their bioengineering workflow.

The Food and Drug Administration has approved what's being called the first bionic eye, which may restore limited vision for adults suffering a rare genetic...

By thinking of cells as programmable robots, researchers at Rice University hope to someday direct how they grow into the tiny blood vessels that feed...

USC neuroscientists have isolated chills at a cellular level, identifying the sensory network of neurons in the skin that relays the sensation of cold.

Published in the journal Cell Stem Cell, the new study is the first successful attempt to use human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSC) to produce...

Your average musical melody doesn't chug along at a single, mechanical speed. It mixes whole notes, quarter notes, sixteenth notes and so on to lay...

MIT engineers have created genetic circuits in bacterial cells that not only perform logic functions, but also remember the results, which are encoded in the...

  A radical new approach to “bionic eye” implants holds out the hope of restoring near-normal sight to the blind, scientists claim. Researchers have dramatically boosted...

Scientists hope that one day in the distant future, miniature, medically-savvy computers will roam our bodies, detecting early-stage diseases and treating them on the spot...

Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and UPMC describe in PLoS ONE how an electrode array sitting on top of the brain...

A UT Arlington bioengineer has been awarded a $407,163 National Science Foundation Early Career Development grant to use light and sound to produce an accurate...