Bioengineering

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

140 articles

Fully Functional Hepatocytes Obtained From Stem Cells

Scientists from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem’s Alexander Grass Center for Bioengineering have produced the most functional hepatocytes to date. The researchers derived the liver...

Bioengineering

Ribo-T : Ribosome with Linked Subunits Reads Desired RNA

Scientists from the University of Illinois at Chicago and Northwestern University have engineered the Ribo-T, a tethered ribosome that could be used to produce drugs and new...

Basic Research
crispr-cas9

CRISPR/Cas9 Successfully Modifies T Cells

Scientists from University of California San Francisco (USCF) have found an improved method to successfully edit the genome of mature human T cells. The research...

Bioengineering

New technology to make gRNA libraries for CRISPR/Cas9

A research team from University of California at Berkeley has developed a technique that makes gene editing much easier and cheaper. Rebecca Heald has directed...

Bioengineering

New Technique Allows to Fine-Tune DNA Origami

DNA origami is more promising than ever thanks to the work of Hao Yan’s team from Arizona State University’s Biodesign Institute. Their innovative technique allows...

Basic Research
crispr-cas9

A New Software to Improve CRISPR/Cas9 Targeting

Scientists from Harvard and University of California have designed an online tool to optimize CRISPR (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats)/Cas9 targeting. The researchers compared...

Apps

New Immunotherapy Based on Magnetic Cells

Scientists from Johns Hopkins University have found a way to improve immunotherapy with magnetic nanoparticles. The researchers used magnetic cells with artificial antigens to extract...

Bioengineering
Bacteria in Guts

MIT Scientists Engineer Bacteria to Control Digestive System

Scientists at MIT are reporting success in bioengineering memory switches, circuits and sensors that allow control over gut inhabiting bacteria to give our immune system...

Bioengineering