There’s a fine art in making miniature human organs. Tissue engineers at the University of Toronto have shown how they [MORE]
Engineered Vocal Cords
This is barely to the prestage of baby’s first words, but regenerative medicine researchers at the University of [MORE]
Greater Omentum
In a thrilling definition of “natural,” biomedical researchers at the University of Miami’s Diabetes Research Institute have engineered a [MORE]
Molecule Size Switch
The smallest possible electrical switch would be no more than a single molecule which could change its shape [MORE]
Robotic Prosthesis
Be sure to watch the video in this piece. It shows a man using a robotic arm which is [MORE]
PLGA Nanofibers
Bioengineers at the University of Maryland have used a commercially available airbrush to spray on a polymer patch [MORE]
Engineered Muscle
To quote directly from this piece: “Living skeletal muscle that contracts powerfully and rapidly, integrates quickly into mice, and [MORE]
DARPA Biotechnologies Office
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), over the past half century, has been responsible for creating the [MORE]
Monkeys controlling avatar with brain activity
Once again, truth is stranger than fiction. Researchers at Duke University have implanted electrodes [MORE]
DNA CUBES
In 1952, Erwin Chargaff discovered the base-pair binding “rules” which provided a key clue to Watson and Crick about [MORE]
Nano Cages
Biochemists at Montreal’s McGill University are experimenting with nano “cubes,” made of DNA and coated with lipid-like molecules, that [MORE]
What’s different about this experiment in somatic cell nuclear transfer is that the transferred nucleus came from a white [MORE]
Gene therapy mainly relies on viral vectors to introduce DNR or RNA into target cells. Viruses have the advantage [MORE]
IBM Hydrogel Kills Microbes
Every surface in a hospital—from bed rails to food trays to door knobs, furniture, etc—are [MORE]