“Weird Things” Seen in X-Ray Images Reveal Insects’ Physiological Responses to Gravity [Video]
Imagine you are flipped upside down and standing on your head. After a few seconds, you would feel pressure in your head due to an…
Biomedical Engineering
Possible New Route for Cancer Therapy After Engineers Track Evolution of Individual Cell
Study shows tumors with softer, larger cells at their periphery are more likely to spread; may suggest new route for cancer therapy. Engineers at MIT…
Millions Have Problems Swallowing – This New Wearable Device Could Help
A wearable monitoring device to make treatments easier and more affordable for the millions of people with swallowing disorders is about to be released into…
Researchers Create Ultimate Non-Stick Coating That Repels Everything – Even Viruses and Bacteria
A self-cleaning surface that repels even the deadliest superbugs: Researchers create the ultimate non-stick coating, with medical settings and food industry in mind. A team…
New Photonic pH Sensor Tracks Lab-Grown Tissue – Helps Advance Toward Growing Limbs and Organs
Tracking lab-grown tissue with light: New proof-of-concept photonic pH sensor could advance studies of tissue regeneration. Someday, doctors would like to grow limbs and other…
Artificial Cells Engineered to Act More Like the Real Thing
Protocells — artificial cells — that are active and mimic living cells by moving independently and that are biocompatible and enzymatically active are now possible…
New Treatment Makes Passing Kidney Stones Faster and Less Painful
Muscle relaxants delivered to the ureter can reduce contractions that cause pain when passing a stone. Every year, more than half a million Americans visit…
3D-Printing Living Skin With Blood Vessels Included [Video]
Development is significant step toward skin grafts that can be integrated into patient’s skin. Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed a way to 3D…
Microscope Teaches Itself the Best Lighting to Improve Diagnosis
Prototype microscope teaches itself the best illumination settings for diagnosing malaria. Engineers at Duke University have developed a microscope that adapts its lighting angles, colors,…
Faster 3D Biomedical Imaging With Compressive Sensing Two-Photon Microscopy
By combining a compressive sensing algorithm with a digital holographic microscope, Professor Shih-Chi CHEN of the Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering, Faculty of Engineering,…
New Tools to Advance Biomedical Research Created by Biological Engineer at MIT
Paul Blainey’s technology platforms have benefited genomics, diagnostics, and drug screening. Microfluidics — the science of manipulating tiny amounts of fluid through channels — has…
Microscopic 3D Printed Donut “Micro Swimmers” Mimic Biological Behavior
Bacteria and other swimming microorganisms evolved to thrive in challenging environments, and researchers struggle to mimic their unique abilities for biomedical technologies, but fabrication challenges…
New Way to Build Synthetic Biology Circuits With Engineered Signaling Pathways
Biologists build proteins that avoid crosstalk with existing molecules. Inside a living cell, many important messages are communicated via interactions between proteins. For these signals…
Fluorescent Brain Probe Visualizes Groups of Neurons As They Compute
Fluorescent probe could allow scientists to watch circuits within the brain and link their activity to specific behaviors. Using a fluorescent probe that lights up…
Oscillating Genetic Circuit: A Reliable Clock for Your Microbiome
Genetic oscillator records changes in microbiome growth patterns in vivo. For all the attention the human microbiome has been getting over the last few years,…
Artificial Gut Aims to Expose the Elusive Microbiome and Its Trillions of Bacteria
Testing platform will allow the research community to explore the human microbiome in new ways. The microbiome is a collection of trillions of bacteria that…
Soft, Flexible Artificial Skin Produces a Realistic Sense of Touch [Video]
EPFL scientists have developed a soft artificial skin that provides haptic feedback and – thanks to a sophisticated self-sensing mechanism – has the potential to…
Amazing New Material Combines Wood Fibers and Spider Silk
The unique material outperforms most of today’s synthetic and natural materials by providing high strength and stiffness, combined with increased toughness. Achieving strength and extensibility…