Rise of the human exoskeletons
Engineers in Italy have developed a wearable robot which they claim is the most sophisticated built in the world to ...
Study finds less cooperation among women than among men where hierarchy is involved
It's long been a popular stereotype: Men are hugely competitive, meaning cooperative effort is the exception rather than the norm, ...
A Powerful New Way to Edit DNA
In the late 1980s, scientists at Osaka University in Japan noticed unusual repeated DNA sequences next to a gene they ...
Imaging dynamics of small biomolecules inside live cells
Columbia researchers develop a general optical imaging platform to examine activities of a broad range of small biomolecules in living ...
Building Artificial Cells Will Be a Noisy Business
Engineers like to make things that work. And if one wants to make something work using nanoscale components—the size of ...
Revolutionary membrane can keep your heart beating perfectly forever
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Washington University in St. Louis have developed a new device that ...
PhD studentship : Lausanne, Switzerland
We are looking for PhD students interested in the following projects, starting as soon as possible: Wavefront/beamshaping for deep tissue ...
Think Like a Proton & Stay Positive
Think Like a Proton & Stay Positive
World’s First ‘Bionic’ Dog
Bionic dog can walk again after being fitted with prosthetics Naki’o, a mixed breed dog from Nebraska, has become the ...
Building a 3D model of ovarian cancer
The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded researchers at Barts Cancer Institute, Queen Mary University of London, a €2.43million grant ...
Postdoc in Bioengineering – Karolinska Institutet
The research group of Ana Teixeira at Karolinska Institutet is looking to hire an outstanding postdoctoral fellow to join a ...
Battling Famine with Bioengineering
Christopher Finch ’14, Amherst College’s latest recipient of a Churchill Foundation Scholarship, intends to apply science to benefit a hungry ...
FDA to study “three-parent embryos”
On February 25 and 26 the US Food and Drug Administration discussed the possibility of legalising three-parent embryos – or, ...
It slices, it dices, and it protects the body from harm
Researchers at Princeton University have discovered the 3D structure of an enzyme that cuts to ribbons the genetic material of ...
Watching how the brain works
There are more than a trillion cells called neurons that form a labyrinth of connections in our brains. Each of ...
Self-repairing running shoes 3D-printed from biological cells
London designer and researcher Shamees Aden is developing a concept for running shoes that would be 3D-printed from synthetic biological ...
Tissue Engineering
Tissue engineering is the use of a combination of cells, engineering and materials methods, and suitable biochemical and physio-chemical factors ...
IBM is bringing Watson to your smartphone
IBM’s Watson is one of the smartest computer systems on the planet: its advanced artificial intelligence can answer natural language ...
Faculty Positions in Institute of Bioengineering, Zhejiang University : Hangzhou, China
The Institute of Bioengineering at Zhejiang University was established in 1986 and is one of the seven institutes in the ...
Lab-grown human heart cells could mean fewer animals used in research
Scientists at Imperial College London are aiming to cut the need to use animals in research by improving methods for ...
