Bioengineering

Engineering applied to living systems: tissue constructs, biomaterials, devices and the hardware bridging biology and fabrication.

140 articles

Google DeepMind’s Co-Scientist Graduates from Research Demo to Nature Paper

Google DeepMind has formally introduced Co-Scientist, a multi-agent AI partner for hypothesis generation, with a new paper in Nature and an experimental rollout to individual...

AI in Research

Novel Egg White-Based Bioink for High-Performance Tissue Engineering

Using egg whites as a base, Terasaki Institute researchers have created a revolutionary bioink, called EWMA (Egg White Methacryloyl), that improves the efficiency and biocompatibility...

3D bioprinting
MinION Oxford Nanopore

Nanopore Sequences Genes Very First Time in Space, Courtesy NASA

Oxford Nanopore’s MiniION sequencers have successfully sequenced genes in space for the very first time at NASA’s International Space Station earlier this week. “One small...

Bioengineering
crispr-cas9

CRISPR as a Recorder of Molecular Activity

Researchers from Harvard University have succesfully proved that CRISPR can work as a recorder of molecular events. Synthetic DNA molecules introduced in bacteria over a...

Basic Research
genome

An Exclusive Scientific Meeting Gives Birth to the Genome Project-Write

A select group of researchers from top American universities gathered last month in an invitation-only meeting at Harvard to discuss the need of technology and an...

Bioengineering
crispr-cas9

CRISPR/Cpf1 Edits Mice Embryos Without Off-Target Effects

Researchers at the IBS Center for Genome Editing in South Korea have successfully created mutant mice using CRISPR/Cpf1. The alternative to the well-known CRISPR/Cas9 system can...

Bioengineering

Bacterial Hair Conducts Electricity and Could Be Used in Bioelectronic Devices

Scientists from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Holy Cross, and Brookhaven National Laboratory have discovered that the filaments present in the surface of Geobacter...

Bioengineering
crispr-cas9

New CRISPR Nuclease Cuts Both DNA and RNA

CRISPR/Cas9 co-discoverer Emmanuelle Charpentier and collaborators from Germany and Sweden have found that Cas nuclease Cpf1 cleaves DNA and RNA. Cpf1 cuts a precursor of crRNA to produce the...

Bioengineering