POSTS TAGGED AS chemical engineering

Millennium Prize for “Directed Evolution”

Frances Arnold Receives Millennium Prize
In directed evolution, bioengineers subject a gene to repeated mutagenesis in order to create an array [MORE]

3-D Printing of Biological Tissues, Almost

3-D Printer Oxford Droplet Network
Oxford University scientists have developed a 3-D printing method that mimics natural tissue.  The printed [MORE]

Designing Rotors for Nanomachines

Anatoly Kolomelsky, PhD
First think of a Crookes radiometer-that child’s toy resembling a light bulb with a spinning vane inside.  [MORE]

Designing Artificial Cilia

Artificial Cilia
Using colloidal films, researchers at the University of Southern Mississippi (Hattiesburg, MS) have produced filaments that contain [MORE]

Well-Behaved Synthetic Cells

Imagine “microcapsules” that secrete nanoparticles as they move, leaving behind a chemical trail for other microcapsules to follow.  Then, [MORE]

Detecting Heart Disease with One Drop of Blood

Shashi K. Murthy, in the Chemical Engineering Department at Northeastern University (Boston) has developed a device, about the size of [MORE]