POSTS TAGGED AS bioengineering

“Person-on-a-Chip”

There’s a fine art in making miniature human organs. Tissue engineers at the University of Toronto have shown how they [MORE]

Growing Transplantable Vocal Cords

Engineered Vocal Cords
This is barely to the prestage of baby’s first words, but regenerative medicine researchers at the University of [MORE]

Miniorgan Produces Insulin in the Omentum

Greater Omentum
In a thrilling definition of “natural,” biomedical researchers at the University of Miami’s Diabetes Research Institute have engineered a [MORE]

Molecular Light Switch

Molecule Size Switch
The smallest possible electrical switch would be no more than a single molecule which could change its shape [MORE]

Mind-Controlled Robotic Prosthetics

Robotic Prosthesis
Be sure to watch the video in this piece. It shows a man using a robotic arm which is [MORE]

Disposable Spray on Patch

PLGA Nanofibers
Bioengineers at the University of Maryland have used a commercially available airbrush to spray on a polymer patch [MORE]

Self-Healing Engineered Muscles

Engineered Muscle
To quote directly from this piece:  “Living skeletal muscle that contracts powerfully and rapidly, integrates quickly into mice, and [MORE]

DARPAs Biological Technologies Office

DARPA Biotechnologies Office
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), over the past half century, has been responsible for creating the [MORE]

Bilateral Brain-Controlled Prosthetics

Monkeys controlling avatar with brain activity
Once again, truth is stranger than fiction.  Researchers at Duke University have implanted electrodes [MORE]

World’s First Programmable Glue

DNA CUBES
In 1952, Erwin Chargaff discovered the base-pair binding “rules” which provided a key clue to Watson and Crick about [MORE]

Nano DNA Traps for Drug Delivery

Nano Cages
Biochemists at Montreal’s McGill University are experimenting with nano “cubes,” made of DNA and coated with lipid-like molecules, that [MORE]

Mouse Cloned from a Single Drop of Blood

What’s different about this experiment in somatic cell nuclear transfer is that the transferred nucleus came from a white [MORE]

Low Voltage Electroporation

Gene therapy mainly relies on viral vectors to introduce DNR or RNA into target cells.  Viruses have the advantage [MORE]

Antimicrobial Hydrogel

IBM Hydrogel Kills Microbes
Every surface in a hospital—from bed rails to food trays to door knobs, furniture, etc—are [MORE]