Scientists’ bioengineering feat
A man has enjoyed his first real dinner in nine years after a pioneering operation to rebuild his jaw using an artifical bone grown in...
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Synthetic biology applies engineering approach to biological components
"We're going to be able to write DNA. What do we want to say?" Professor Drew Endy of biological engineering asked this question as he...
Dog genome assembled
MIT researchers and colleagues have released the first draft of the dog genome sequence, which could aid the characterization of dog diseases. The draft has...
Bioengineers create a new approach to tissue engineering
Bioengineers report a new approach to creating three-dimensional samples of human tissue that could push researchers closer to their ultimate goal: tissue engineering for therapeutic...
Bioengineered nanomachines
Nano-circuit fabrication using a living bacterium? Science fiction seems to have met with reality with the news that researchers at the NASA Ames Research Center,...
RNA pioneer looks back
DNA makes RNA makes protein. In retrospect, it couldn't be clearer. But to Alexander Rich and the other pioneers trying to figure out RNA structure...
Biorubber opens doors for tissue engineering
Scientists from around the world have been contacting an MIT laboratory for samples of "biorubber," a new material with myriad applications including engineered lungs, heart...