Tag: Bioengineering

USC neuroscientists have isolated chills at a cellular level, identifying the sensory network of neurons in the skin that relays ...

Published in the journal Cell Stem Cell, the new study is the first successful attempt to use human induced pluripotent ...

Your average musical melody doesn't chug along at a single, mechanical speed. It mixes whole notes, quarter notes, sixteenth notes ...

MIT engineers have created genetic circuits in bacterial cells that not only perform logic functions, but also remember the results, ...

  A radical new approach to “bionic eye” implants holds out the hope of restoring near-normal sight to the blind, ...

Scientists hope that one day in the distant future, miniature, medically-savvy computers will roam our bodies, detecting early-stage diseases and ...

Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and UPMC describe in PLoS ONE how an electrode array sitting ...

By studying hand motions, Maurice Smith is creating an instruction manual to help repair a broken-down brain

  Dr. Todd Coleman is getting big attention for his work with wireless sensors the size of tiny temporary tattoos.Coleman ...

A team of researchers from Scotland has used a novel 3D printing technique to arrange human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) ...

Scientists are learning how to turn neurons on and off at will by shining light into caverns of the mind, ...

The human body contains immune cells programmed to fight cancer and viral infections, but they often have short lifespans and ...

UC San Diego bioengineers have dashed the hopes of scientists looking for an easy way to determine how genes are ...

Other researchers are developing prosthetic skin which might wrap around a bionic limb and feed back sensory information to the ...