Providing a gentle grip on gelatinous creatures, a new ultra-soft underwater gripper safely catches and…
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The Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University is a cross-disciplinary research institute known for developing bioinspired materials and devices aimed at solving complex societal problems through technology innovation. Founded in 2009 through a generous gift from entrepreneur Hansjörg Wyss, the institute seeks to uncover nature’s design principles and apply them to create new materials and devices that can interface with living systems. The Wyss Institute’s work spans a wide array of fields, including biologically inspired engineering, robotic systems, regenerative medicine, and diagnostic technology. Among its many innovations are organs-on-chips, robotic exosuits, and programmable DNA nanorobots for use in medicine. The Institute emphasizes a collaborative approach, bringing together researchers from various scientific, engineering, and medical disciplines to innovate and accelerate translation of technologies from the lab to the marketplace.
Filtering and treating water, both for human consumption and to clean industrial and municipal wastewater,…
Harvard University researchers have developed a new printing method that uses soundwaves to generate droplets…
The human brain is the most complex and delicate of all the body’s organs, and…
Roboticists envision a future in which soft, animal-inspired robots could be safely deployed in difficult-to-access…
New 3-D printing technique enables faster, better, and cheaper models of patient-specific medical data for…
Unlike cell-based cancer immunotherapies that manipulate immune cells outside of the body and transfer them…
Sepsis, or blood poisoning, occurs when the body’s response to infection damages its own tissues…
A Band-Aid adhesive bandage is an effective way to stop bleeding from skin wounds, but…
As cancer cells continuously mutate their DNA, they also produce proteins that are altered from…
Chernobyl. Three Mile Island. Fukushima. Accidents at nuclear power plants can potentially cause massive destruction…
Because of their high precision and speed, Delta robots are deployed in many industrial processes,…
First nanotechnological approach enables the design and replication of complex single-stranded DNA and RNA origami…
Cell biologists traditionally use fluorescent dyes to label and visualize cells and the molecules within…
Scientists at the Wyss Institute used synthetic biology techniques to discover that bacteria respond to…
A team of researchers from Harvard’s Wyss Institute of Biologically Inspired Engineering have developed an…
Engineers from Harvard University have made the first entirely 3D-printed organ-on-a-chip with integrated sensing. Using…
New research details how scientists are moving closer to embedding vascular networks into thick human…