Chronic pain alters how DNA works in brain
Epigenetic changes may be caused by environmental factors, including diet, exposure to contaminants, and social conditions such as poverty—and may ...
Streamlined engineering for synthetic biology
Researchers are injecting ever more conscious design into their bioengineering workflow.
Bionic eye approved
The Food and Drug Administration has approved what's being called the first bionic eye, which may restore limited vision for ...
Anthony Atala: Printing a human kidney
Surgeon Anthony Atala demonstrates an early-stage experiment that could someday solve the organ-donor problem: a 3D printer that uses living ...
Todd Kuiken: A prosthetic arm that "feels"
Physiatrist and engineer Todd Kuiken is building a prosthetic arm that connects with the human nervous system -- improving motion, ...
Sheila Nirenberg: A prosthetic eye to treat blindness
Sheila Nirenberg studies how the brain encodes information -- possibly allowing us to decode it, and maybe develop prosthetic sensory ...
Bonnie Bassler: How bacteria "talk"
Bonnie Bassler studies how bacteria can communicate with one another, through chemical signals, to act as a unit. Her work ...
‘Robot’ cells answer call to arms
By thinking of cells as programmable robots, researchers at Rice University hope to someday direct how they grow into the ...
USC scientists turn off the ability to feel cold
USC neuroscientists have isolated chills at a cellular level, identifying the sensory network of neurons in the skin that relays ...
Human brain cells made from reprogrammed skin cells
Published in the journal Cell Stem Cell, the new study is the first successful attempt to use human induced pluripotent ...
RNA sets the ‘rhythm’ for protein folding
Your average musical melody doesn't chug along at a single, mechanical speed. It mixes whole notes, quarter notes, sixteenth notes ...
Cell circuits remember their history
MIT engineers have created genetic circuits in bacterial cells that not only perform logic functions, but also remember the results, ...
Bionic Eye
A radical new approach to “bionic eye” implants holds out the hope of restoring near-normal sight to the blind, ...
Device Made of DNA Inserted Into Bacterial Cell
Scientists hope that one day in the distant future, miniature, medically-savvy computers will roam our bodies, detecting early-stage diseases and ...
Paralyzed Man Uses Thoughts Alone to Control Robot Arm
Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and UPMC describe in PLoS ONE how an electrode array sitting ...
Bioengineer to use hybrid imaging system to see deep tissue
A UT Arlington bioengineer has been awarded a $407,163 National Science Foundation Early Career Development grant to use light and ...
Meet Rex: the bionic man
Rex’s (short for robotic exoskeleton) creators say he is the most complete bionic man to date. Altogether, scientists can now ...
If you give a bioengineer a cookie…
By studying hand motions, Maurice Smith is creating an instruction manual to help repair a broken-down brain
UCSD bioengineering professor makes big strides with tiny sensors
Dr. Todd Coleman is getting big attention for his work with wireless sensors the size of tiny temporary tattoos.Coleman ...
Bioengineers recreate natural complex gene regulation
By reproducing in the laboratory the complex interactions that cause human genes to turn on inside cells, Duke University bioengineers ...
