POSTS TAGGED AS bioengineering

Viruses as Tissue Scaffold

Bioengineers at the University of California, Berkeley, have developed a process of assembling bacteriophage on glass to create scaffolds [MORE]

MRI-Guided Surgical Robot

Pierre Dupont, PhD chief of Pediatric Cardiac Bioengineering at Children’s Hospital Boston is working on a ball-baring sized robot [MORE]

Optogenetics

Imagine an implantable bolus containing a patient’s own cells which have been reengineered to contain a light sensitive protein that [MORE]

Bioengineered Voicebox

Several research groups around the world have now removed cells from cadaver organs, reseeded the remaining protein scaffolding with [MORE]

Determining the “Individuality” of Cells

Using microfluidic “cell culture chips,” Stanford University bioengineers have shown that cells are quite individualistic when it comes [MORE]

Mimicking the Human Nervous System

“This report describes important future research directions in nanoscale science, engineering and technology.”  For instance, it describes how nanotubes [MORE]

Heart Patch

In an experiment that demonstrates reality is stranger than fiction, Israeli researchers placed an engineered scaffolding, containing myocytes, in rats’ [MORE]

Heart Patch

In an experiment that demonstrates reality is stranger than fiction, Israeli researchers placed an engineered scaffolding, containing myocytes, in rats’ [MORE]

First Artificial Cellular Organelle

Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, NY) have taken lab-on-a-chip thinking to the next level; they have created a microfluidics [MORE]

Reverse Engineering; Forward Simulation

Gene Network Sciences (Cambridge, MA) developed super-bioinformatics techniques that determine how molecules interact with one another (reverse engineering), and then [MORE]

HD Sound Imaging

Ultrasound images are fuzzy because sound is difficult to “focus.”  But with an aluminum array of narrow resonance cavities filled [MORE]

SomnoSENS and More

Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits in Erlangen, Germany had developed a mobile sleep lab for home assessment, [MORE]

Bead Array Counter

The Naval Research Lab has developed a compact instrument that uses 64 sensors, 200 μm in size, that are coated [MORE]

Robotic Eating Aid

Bestic is a Swedish company that makes a robotic arm to assist a disabled person with eating.  It can cut [MORE]