Bioengineers Use 3D Printer to Print Ears that Look and Act like Natural Ears
Using 3D printing and injectable gels made of living cells, bioengineers have created an artificial ear that looks and acts like a natural ear. Cornell…
Biomedical Engineering
“Pill” Mimics the Action of the Human Liver in Fighting Alcohol Intoxication
UCLA led researchers have developed a “pill” that uses two enzymes to mimic the action of the human liver in fighting alcohol intoxication. In a…
Synthetic Biology Circuits Perform Logic Functions and Remember the Results
Researchers at MIT have developed new synthetic biology circuits that combine memory and logic. MIT engineers have created genetic circuits in bacterial cells that not…
3-D Printing of Human Embryonic Stem Cell Cultures
Researchers from Heriot-Watt University, in partnership with Roslin Cellab, have developed a 3D printing process that is the first to print embryonic cell cultures, allowing…
Body’s Natural Inflammatory Response Linked to the Spread of Breast Cancer
Biomedical engineers at Cornell University have discovered a link between the body’s natural inflammatory response and how malignant breast cancer cells use the bloodstream to…
Engineers at SEAS Develop a Microelectronic Device that Mimics Functions of Real Cells
Scientists at the Yale School of Engineering & Applied Science have developed a microelectronic device that controls the flow of ions through a nanometer channel…
Pressure Can Revert and Stop the Growth of Cancer Cells
New research showed that applying physical pressure to malignant breast cancer cells guided them back to a normal growth pattern. This research could lead to…
Barbed Porcupine Quills Could Help Enhance Various Biomedical Devices
A porcupine quill only needs half the force of a hypodermic needle in order to pierce skin. This new study also explains why the quills…
Jellyfish-Inspired Microchip Can Be Used to Capture Cancer Cells
Scientists have built a jellyfish-inspired microchip that can capture cancer and other rare cells in human blood. The scientists published their findings in the journal…
Lab-Made Gel Mimics Molecular Motors Inside Living Cells
Researchers have developed a lab-made material that can move itself using the building blocks found inside of cells. The scientists published their findings in the…
Magnetic Nanoparticles Control Thousands of Cells Simultaneously
A team of scientists from UCLA have developed a platform to precisely manipulate magnetic nanoparticles inside uniformly shaped cells. Using clusters of tiny magnetic particles…
A Program to Encode Self-Assembling Collagen Proteins
A newly published study describes the making and testing of collagen based on a new computer program that predicts the most stable structures of nanometer-sized…
Stanford Scientists Examine How UV Radiation Affects the Protective Functions of Human Skin
Scientists at Stanford University examined how varying doses of UVB radiation changes the protective functions of human skin, finding that beyond DNA damage and cancer…
Genetically Altered Organism Could Potentially Turn Almost Any Source of Carbon into Fuel
By removing a few genes, inserting a gene from another organism and tinkering with the expression of other genes, MIT scientists have discovered a way…
Microfluidic System Precisely Measures Mammalian Cell Growth Rates
Using a microfluidic system for simultaneously measuring single-cell mass and cell cycle progression over multiple generations, a team of researchers from MIT and Harvard Medical…
Newly Designed Transcription Factors Can Bind to DNA and Turn on Specific Genes
A new study from MIT and Boston University scientists describes a new method of using zinc fingers to design transcription factors for nonbacterial cells and…
First Whole-Cell Computational Model of the Life Cycle of an Organism
Using data from more than 900 scientific papers, a team of Stanford researchers produced the first whole-cell computational model of the life cycle of the…
Engineers to Develop a Smart Suit That Improves Physical Endurance
Engineers at the Wyss Institute are working on a smart suit that helps improve physical endurance for soldiers in the field, delaying the onset of…