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First Hairy Human Skin Organoid
Small hair-growing skin model in lab
Thinking about the problem of hair loss and how to model its biology, researchers at [MORE]
Restoring Hearing Loss from a Genetic Mutation (Mice)
Base editing for restoring hearing in mice
From Harvard researchers: “[We] used base editing methods to treat a mouse model of [MORE]
Microfluidic Device for Assessing Blood Clotting
Microfluidic device by Jain and team to help detect blood clots
Engineers at Texas A & M University have built a [MORE]
Electrogenetic Control
Implant and circuit board for electronic insulin release
Swiss bioengineers show how an electronic device can release insulin in the body: [MORE]
Trouble Shooting Gene Therapy
Gene therapy via viral vector
Making safe and serviceable viral vectors for gene therapy has many challenges—from empty to overfilled AAV [MORE]
The Dark Side of COVID-19 Antibody Testing
COVID-19 antibody testing
Here’s the rub; the world awaits an accurate diagnostic for COVID-19, but in the rush to meet the [MORE]
A Microrobotic “White Blood Cell”
Robotic white blood cells deliver drugs directly to cancer cells
Max Planck Institute bioengineers have built microparticle drug-delivering artificial white blood [MORE]