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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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...