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A team of bioengineers has developed the SafeSnip device
TULANE (US)—Researchers have designed SafeSnip, an inexpensive device that could prevent millions of infection-related neonatal deaths in developing countries. The small plastic clamp cuts, seals,...
A ‘Bionic Nose’ That Knows
Researchers have developed device to detect microscopic signs of cancer, bombs and impure water. Both cancer cells and the chemicals used to make bombs can...
Bio-inspired Toughest Ceramic Mimics Mother Of Pearl
Biomimicry – technological innovation inspired by nature – is one of the hottest ideas in science but has yet to yield many practical advances. Time...
Bioengineering The Heart Piece By Piece
Some day, heart attack survivors might have a patch of laboratory-grown muscle placed in their heart, to replace areas that died during their attack. Children...
1st Woman With Bionic Arm
Claudia Mitchell, who lives in Ellicott City, is the fourth person — and first woman — to receive a “bionic” arm, which allows her to...
Researchers Move Biotechnology Closer To Replacing Electronic Pacemakers
UC Davis researchers have successfully used a custom designed protein and gene delivery system to restore normal heart rhythms in pigs with electronic pacemakers, reducing...
Bioengineered bladders successful in patients
Bladders engineered in the laboratory from patients' own cells and then implanted into the body have succeeded in their first clinical trial. The feat was...
MIT establishes biological engineering major
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty yesterday approved a new course of study for undergraduates, in biological engineering, the first entirely new curriculum established at...
Scientists’ bioengineering feat
A man has enjoyed his first real dinner in nine years after a pioneering operation to rebuild his jaw using an artifical bone grown in...
Synthetic biology applies engineering approach to biological components
"We're going to be able to write DNA. What do we want to say?" Professor Drew Endy of biological engineering asked this question as he...
Dog genome assembled
MIT researchers and colleagues have released the first draft of the dog genome sequence, which could aid the characterization of dog diseases. The draft has...
Bioengineers create a new approach to tissue engineering
Bioengineers report a new approach to creating three-dimensional samples of human tissue that could push researchers closer to their ultimate goal: tissue engineering for therapeutic...
Bioengineered nanomachines
Nano-circuit fabrication using a living bacterium? Science fiction seems to have met with reality with the news that researchers at the NASA Ames Research Center,...