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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Robotic Plant Grows Roots
Plants could soon have robotic counterparts. Barbara Mazzolai from the Italian Institute of Technology in Genoa and colleagues are creating ...
Plastic from Grass
Nearly all the plastics sold today come from petroleum and aren’t biodegradable. But researchers at Metabolix in Cambridge, Massachusetts, are ...
Glass Project for Blinds
Recent advances in optogenetics have opened the possibility of restoring light sensitivity to vision cells using a simple injection and ...
The first bionic eye to be approved for patients in the U.S. is getting software upgrades.
The FDA-approved Argus II Retinal Prosthesis System from Second Sight Medical Products transmits images from a small, eye-glass-mounted camera wirelessly ...
Micro-Machines for the Human Body
Tiny sensors and motors are everywhere, telling your smartphone screen to rotate and your camera to focus. Now, a team ...
Scientists Visualize How Cancer Chromosome Abnormalities Form in Living Cells
For the first time, scientists have directly observed events that lead to the formation of a chromosome abnormality that is ...
Wiring diagram of retinal neurons is first step toward mapping the human brain.
The human brain has 100 billion neurons, connected to each other in networks that allow us to interpret the world ...
Stanford’s bioengineering boot camp for high schoolers
High school students in a Stanford bioengineering boot camp tackled real-world projects, such as using sensors to ensure that surgeons ...
Human Epigenomic Map Extended
Ten years ago, scientists announced the end of the Human Genome Project, the international attempt to learn which combination of ...
IBM Research reveals new silicon chip foundation inspired by the human brain
Scientists from IBM unveiled a software ecosystem designed for programming silicon chips that have an architecture inspired by the function, ...
Researchers find key signal that guides brain development
Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have decoded an important molecular signal that guides the development of a key ...
The temperature tastes just right to insects
Scientists discover previously unknown thermal sensor in insects linked to taste, smell.Call it the Goldilocks Principle — animals can survive ...
Brain Molecule Regulating Human Emotion, Mood
A RIKEN research team has discovered an enzyme called Rines that regulates MAO-A, a major brain protein controlling emotion and ...
World’s first lab-grown burger to be cooked and eaten
The world's first lab-grown burger is to be unveiled and eaten at a news conference in London on Monday. Scientists ...
Soft Robotic Devices Using Water-Based Gels
Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a new technique for creating devices out of a water-based hydrogel material ...
Researchers have Fabricated a Bioartificial Ear
Researchers have fabricated a bioartificial ear that looks and mechanically behaves like a human one, as revealed in Journal of ...
Microfluidic Breakthrough in Biotechnology
Chemical flasks and inconvenient chemostats for cultivation of bacteria are likely soon to be discarded. Researchers from the Institute of ...
