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…
Biomedical Engineering
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…
Researchers Discover Cause of Asthmatic Lung Spasms
By creating a microdevice that mimics lung function on single-cell levels, researchers at Rutgers, Yale, and Johns Hopkins have learned more about asthmatic trigger response,…
New Super-Charged Treatment Boosts T-Cell Therapy
A promising new way to treat some types of cancer is to program the patient’s own T cells to destroy the cancerous cells. This approach,…
Scientists Develop Modular Approach to Engineering Immune Cells
Yale researchers have developed a new way to efficiently engineer immune cells, an advance which enhances the ability to fend off cancer and other diseases,…
Scientists Use Acoustic Waves to Monitor Stiffness of Living Cells
MIT engineers have devised a new, noninvasive way to measure the stiffness of living cells using acoustic waves. Their technique allows them to monitor single…
Breakthrough Could Lead to New Insights About Cancer Development
MicroRNAs, the tiny bits of genetic material that regulate gene expression, play a significant – but poorly understood – role in controlling the differences between…
New Arthritis Treatment Prevents Cartilage Breakdown
Injectable material made of nanoscale particles can deliver arthritis drugs throughout cartilage. Osteoarthritis, a disease that causes severe joint pain, affects more than 20 million…
Liquid-Gated Membranes Filter Water With Higher Efficiency, Longer Time to Foul
Filtering and treating water, both for human consumption and to clean industrial and municipal wastewater, accounts for about 13 percent of all electricity consumed in…