POSTS TAGGED AS bioengineering

An Artificial Lung

Artificial Lung
This piece is mind-boggling.  Researchers at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland have developed an artificial lung [MORE]

Close to Growing Functional Kidneys

Embryonic kidney cells fail to develop into functional renal tissue because they require a blood supply to mature.  To [MORE]

Machine-Made “Skin”

Tissue Engineering
Engineers and chemists at the University of Toronto have built a tissue culture device that can produce multiple [MORE]

Nanoscaffolds for Cartilage Repair

It will be a while before a technique Johns Hopkins bioengineers have developed for cartilage repair reaches clinical medicine, [MORE]

Robot’s Fingertip More Sensitive than Human Touch

Bio Tac Robot Skin
It is called “Bio Tac,” and according to bioengineers at the University of Southern California it [MORE]

Synthesizing Blood Platelets

Artist Rendering of Artifiical Platelets
Bioengineers at the University of California-Santa Barbara, the Scripps Research Institute and the Sanford-Burnham Institute [MORE]

World’s Smallest Artificial Heart

Jarvik 2000 Artificial Heart
Last May 24th, surgeons at the Bambino Gesu’ Hospital in Rome implanted the world’s smallest artificial [MORE]

Thermally Stable Organic, Thin-Film Transistors

Organic Thin Film Transistor
In the late 1980’s, Japanese electrical engineers developed the first organic, thin-film transistors for use in [MORE]

Automating Synthetic Bone-Making process

Lego Robots for Building Bone
Fabricating artificial bone is a process that resembles candle-making—by repeated dippings.  To offset this labor-intensive [MORE]

Rapid Self-Healing Hydrogels

Jello-Like Hydrogels
See the video in this piece; it describes how bioengineers at the University of California San Diego developed hydrogels [MORE]

Viruses as Tissue Scaffold

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

MRI-Guided Surgical Robot

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

Optogenetics

Power of light: These diabetic mice have been implanted with cells genetically engineered to trigger insulin production when exposed to [MORE]

Bioengineered Voicebox

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