Computer can read letters directly from the brain
By analysing MRI images of the brain with an elegant mathematical model, it is possible to reconstruct thoughts more accurately ...
Nanoparticles reprogram immune cells to fight cancer
Researchers at the University of Georgia are developing a new treatment technique that uses nanoparticles to reprogram immune cells so ...
Bioengineers closer to viable organ implants
Researchers at the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN) have developed a simple method of organizing cells and their microenvironments ...
New Possibilities for Efficient Biofuel Production
Limited availability of fossil fuels stimulates the search for different energy resources. The use of biofuels is one of the ...
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 ...
Cancer’s Origins Revealed
Researchers have provided the first comprehensive compendium of mutational processes that drive tumour development. Together, these mutational processes explain most ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
