The Velveteen Robot
Researchers at MIT, Harvard, and Seoul National University have created a robotic worm. “So what?” you ask. They’re also making robotic horses—and robot hummingbirds, for...
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Rewriting DNA to Understand What It Says
Our ability to “read” DNA has made tremendous progress in the past few decades, but the ability to understand and alter the genetic code, that...
Bioengineers Make DNA Into a Living Flash Drive
Bioengineers looking to turn microbes into manufacturers have longed for a kit of components as regular and predictable as those used by electrical engineers. But...
Bioengineered Follicles Grow Hair On Bald Mice
The method devised by Professor Tsuji’s team involves reconstructing hair follicle germs from adult epithelial stem cells and cultured dermal papilla cells (dermal papilla are...
Researchers implant Biofuel Cell in Living Snail
Researchers led by Evgeny Katz, the Milton Kerker Chaired Professor of Colloid Science at Clarkson University, have implanted a biofuel cell in a living snail....
Radio waves remotely triggered the release of insulin in mice
Researchers have remotely activated genes inside living animals, a proof of concept that could one day lead to medical procedures in which patients’ genes are...
Science fiction comes to life in Italian lab
Once the preserve of science fiction, increasingly sophisticated robotic devices are vying for a place side by side with humans in the real world. At Italy's...
New generation bionics – wireless and touch-sensitive
Other researchers are developing prosthetic skin which might wrap around a bionic limb and feed back sensory information to the nervous system, in theory enabling...
The Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience (IBB)
The Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience (IBB) opened its doors in 1995 and since that time it has served as a catalyst...
Erasmus Programme
Erasmus programme is a great opportunity to spend between 3 and 12 months in another European country, and have it count towards your degree....
Brain activity decoded to play back heard words
Neuroscientists may one day be able to hear the imagined speech of a patient unable to speak due to stroke or paralysis, according to University...
DNA motors on
With the relentless rise of DNA nanotechnology's popularity, Emma Davies explores the role chemistry has played in its success As a supramolecular chemist, Hanadi Sleiman...
A bionic prosthetic eye that speaks the language of your brain
On the grand scale of things, we know so very little about the brain. Our thick-headedness isn’t quite cosmological in scale — we really do...
Researchers Turn Viruses Into Molecular Legos
Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, have turned a benign virus into an engineering tool for assembling structures that mimic collagen, one of the...