Miniaturized laboratory-on-chip systems promise rapid, sensitive, and multiplexed detection of biological samples for medical diagnostics, drug discovery, and high-throughput screening. Cross-section of device with a...
Epigenetic changes may be caused by environmental factors, including diet, exposure to contaminants, and social conditions such as poverty—and may have a long-term effect on...
Researchers are injecting ever more conscious design into their bioengineering workflow.
The Food and Drug Administration has approved what's being called the first bionic eye, which may restore limited vision for adults suffering a rare genetic...
Surgeon Anthony Atala demonstrates an early-stage experiment that could someday solve the organ-donor problem: a 3D printer that uses living cells to output a transplantable...
Physiatrist and engineer Todd Kuiken is building a prosthetic arm that connects with the human nervous system -- improving motion, control and even feeling. Onstage,...
Sheila Nirenberg studies how the brain encodes information -- possibly allowing us to decode it, and maybe develop prosthetic sensory devices.
Bonnie Bassler studies how bacteria can communicate with one another, through chemical signals, to act as a unit. Her work could pave the way for...
By thinking of cells as programmable robots, researchers at Rice University hope to someday direct how they grow into the tiny blood vessels that feed...
USC neuroscientists have isolated chills at a cellular level, identifying the sensory network of neurons in the skin that relays the sensation of cold.
Published in the journal Cell Stem Cell, the new study is the first successful attempt to use human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSC) to produce...
Your average musical melody doesn't chug along at a single, mechanical speed. It mixes whole notes, quarter notes, sixteenth notes and so on to lay...
MIT engineers have created genetic circuits in bacterial cells that not only perform logic functions, but also remember the results, which are encoded in the...
A radical new approach to “bionic eye” implants holds out the hope of restoring near-normal sight to the blind, scientists claim. Researchers have dramatically boosted...
Scientists hope that one day in the distant future, miniature, medically-savvy computers will roam our bodies, detecting early-stage diseases and treating them on the spot...
