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...
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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...
Bionic Bacteria May Help Make New Drugs, Biofuels
A strain of genetically enhanced bacteria developed by researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies may pave the way for new synthetic drugs and...
Textile Bioengineering and Informatics Society
Textile Bioengineering and Informatics Society (TBIS) is a charitable organization created to foster, develop and promote all aspects of science and technology in bioengineering of...
Scientists unveil tools for rewriting the code of life
New technology from MIT and Harvard can edit DNA at the genome scale, giving cells novel functions. MIT and Harvard researchers have developed technologies that...
‘Human Breast Milk’ From Bioengineered Cows
Chinese scientists have produced a herd of bioengineered cows that make milk that could substitute for human breast milk -- a possible alternative to formula...