Bioengineering Tissue to Rebuild Damaged Bones and Organs
From the chimera in Greek mythology to the sphinx in ancient Egypt, humans have imagined making creatures from pieces of different organisms for millennia.Tissue engineering,...
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This Bacterium Can Do Division, Compute Logarithms And Take Square Roots
MIT engineers have transformed bacterial cells into living calculators that can compute logarithms, divide, and take square roots, using three or fewer genetic parts. ILLUSTRATION...
Paper-Thin Flexible ‘Skin’ Monitors Heart Health
Zhenan Bao, a professor of chemical engineering at Stanford, has developed a heart monitor thinner than a dollar bill and no wider than a postage...
The artificial pancreas that keeps tabs on sugar
Development of a sophisticated artificial pancreas holds potential to transform the lives of patients with Type 1 diabetes.Type 1 diabetes is a lifelong condition caused...
Josep Samitier named new director of Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia
The Board of Trustees of the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) has chosen Dr. Josep Samitier as the center’s new director, from nine candidates...
Human stem cells created by cloning
Scientists at Oregon Health & Science University and the Oregon National Primate Research Center (ONPRC) have successfully reprogrammed human skin cells to become embryonic stem...
Bioengineered biomaterial could improve success of medical implants
It’s a familiar scenario – a patient receives a medical implant and days later, the body attacks the artificial valve or device, causing complications to...
A new way to kill cancer cells
When cells suffer too much DNA damage, they are usually forced to undergo programmed cell death, or apoptosis. However, cancer cells often ignore these signals,...
Brain catches grammar errors even when you don’t realize it
Your brain often works on autopilot when it comes to grammar. That theory has been around for years, but University of Oregon neuroscientists have captured...
Carnivorous Plant Throws out ‘Junk’ DNA
Genes make up about 2 percent of the human genome. The rest consists of a genetic material known as noncoding DNA, and scientists have spent...
Imperial College: Research Fellowship in Lung Mechanics
The Centre for Blast Injury Studies and the Department of Bioengineering wish to appoint an outstanding individual who will establish an international research profile in...
Organic Computer
The US team fitted two rats with devices called brain-to-brain interfaces that let the animals collaborate on simple tasks to earn rewards, such as a...
Making old hearts younger
Two Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) researchers — a stem cell biologist and a practicing cardiologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital — have identified a...
Bioengineered Functional Ovarian Tissue in Lab
Although there are medications that can compensate for the loss of female sex hormone production, the drugs are often not recommended for long-term use due...
Ancient DNA Found Hidden Below Sea Floor
In the middle of the South Atlantic, there’s a patch of sea almost devoid of life. There are no birds, few fish, not even much...