Innovation from MIT could allow many biological components to be connected to produce predictable effects. Researchers have made great progress in recent years in the design and creation of... Read more
Biology is on the verge of getting its versions of the lever, wheel and axle, pulley and other basic machines that enable engineers to build almost any mechanical device, a new analysis has... Read more
In a first-of-its-kind operation in the United States, a team of doctors at Duke University Hospital helped create a bioengineered blood vessel and transplanted it into the arm of a patient... Read more
Surgeon Paolo Macchiarini has made his name by successfully transplanting bioengineered stem cell-based trachea, composed of both artificial and biological material. He now plans to use the... Read more
A newly developed synthetic mat for roofs could one day help to cool down buildings without using up electricity. Sweating is a conceivably simple and efficient process for cooling down the... Read more
“The biological Internet is in its very earliest stages” If you were a bacterium, the virus M13 might seem innocuous enough. It insinuates more than it invades, setting up shop l... Read more
It costs about $20 to manufacture. Instead of building a better mousetrap, a team of Rice University freshmen took a mousetrap and built a better way to treat dehydration among childr... Read more
The method has been shown to work with all types of hair follicles Researchers lead by Professor Takashi Tsuji from the Tokyo University of Science have successfully induced the natural hair... Read more