Molecular ‘Switch’ To Reprogram Control Pathways In Cells
Called a molecular network diverter, this new switch combines existing biological techniques into a meta-tool that can sense and modulate the signals that regulate the...
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Stanford bioengineers create bioengineered peptide
Tough, bioengineered peptide is a major advance in brain tumor imaging that could enable more precise surgical removal.In a breakthrough that could have wide-ranging applications...
Undergraduate biomedical engineering teams win NIH competition
Winners awarded for diagnostics, therapeutics, and technologies for underserved populations. Three teams were announced as winners in the Design by Biomedical Undergraduate Teams (DEBUT) challenge,...
Virus design for therapies
Rice University researchers adapted a computer algorithm to find the parts of two distantly related adeno-associated viruses that could be recombined into new and useful...
Robotic Plant Grows Roots
Plants could soon have robotic counterparts. Barbara Mazzolai from the Italian Institute of Technology in Genoa and colleagues are creating a system that mimics the...
Plastic from Grass
Nearly all the plastics sold today come from petroleum and aren’t biodegradable. But researchers at Metabolix in Cambridge, Massachusetts, are bioengineering switchgrass to produce a...
Glass Project for Blinds
Recent advances in optogenetics have opened the possibility of restoring light sensitivity to vision cells using a simple injection and gene-based therapy. But how can...