17 Year-Old Creates a 3D-Printed Robotic Prosthetic Arm for $500
A Colorado teenager has used 3D printing to create a robotic prosthetic arm that costs less than $500 and is fully functional. At TedxMileHigh in...
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Cancer’s Origins Revealed
Researchers have provided the first comprehensive compendium of mutational processes that drive tumour development. Together, these mutational processes explain most mutations found in 30 of...
Printing Out a Biological Machine
Not all bioengineers who are using printers in the lab are trying to create tissues or organs. Some are intent on making biological machines. In...
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...
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...