Cancer’s Origins Revealed
Researchers have provided the first comprehensive compendium of mutational processes that drive tumour development. Together, these mutational processes explain most mutations found in 30 of...
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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 on making biological machines. In...
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 the signals that regulate the...
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 that could have wide-ranging applications...
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 Biomedical Undergraduate Teams (DEBUT) challenge,...
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 recombined into new and useful...
Robotic Plant Grows Roots
Plants could soon have robotic counterparts. Barbara Mazzolai from the Italian Institute of Technology in Genoa and colleagues are creating a system that mimics the...
Plastic from Grass
Nearly all the plastics sold today come from petroleum and aren’t biodegradable. But researchers at Metabolix in Cambridge, Massachusetts, are bioengineering switchgrass to produce a...
Glass Project for Blinds
Recent advances in optogenetics have opened the possibility of restoring light sensitivity to vision cells using a simple injection and gene-based therapy. But how can...
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 to a microelectrode array implanted...
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 of researchers at Tel Aviv...
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 often found in cancer cells....
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 around us, plan for the...
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 don't accidentally leave pieces of...
Human Epigenomic Map Extended
Ten years ago, scientists announced the end of the Human Genome Project, the international attempt to learn which combination of four nucleotides—adenine, thymine, cytosine, and...