What if repairing large segments of damaged muscle tissue was as simple as mobilizing the body’s stem cells to the site of the injury? New research in mice and rats, conducted at Wake Forest... Read more
“Biology has an incredible diversity of species, which can provide us new design cues and synthetic routes to the next generation of advanced materials for light-weight automobiles, aircraft... Read more
Freiburg research team develops artificial surfaces insects cannot stick to Beetles, cockroaches, and ants will have a harder time walking on facades or air conditioners in the future – than... Read more
This marks the first time researchers have shown a glass implant strong enough to bear weight can also integrate with bone and promote bone growth Researchers at Missouri University of Scien... Read more
The tail of a seahorse can be compressed to about half its size before permanent damage occurs, engineers at the University of California, San Diego, have found. The tail’s exceptional flexi... Read more
Heart cells beat in bioscaffold for babies A painstaking effort to create a biocompatible patch to heal infant hearts is paying off at Rice University and Texas Children’s Hospital. The proo... Read more
This could help millions of people across the world retain – or even regain – their sight. Engineers at the University of Sheffield have developed a new technique for delivering... Read more