Bioengineering

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

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Riboflavin Based 3D Printing to Produce Compatible Medical Implants

A team of researchers from the University of North Carolina have given the phrase “Vitamins are good for you” a completely new meaning by 3D...

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Biomaterial transform stem cells

Physical Features Replace Chemicals in Transforming Mature Cells to Stem Cells

Researchers at UC Berkeley are reporting on a breakthrough in substituting biochemicals with 3D physical features to revert mature human and mouse cells back to...

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Green Photon Beam Scores Over Laser for Optical Manipulation

Optical tweezers have been the equipment of choice for applications involving manipulation of small molecules and structures. The highly focused laser beams used in optical...

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Wyss institute breakthrough

Wyss Researchers Discover the Best Way to Express Synthetic Genes

Researchers at Wyss Institute might have found the solution to very synthetic biologist’s nightmare: bacteria disobeying commands to express genes of interest. In an incredible...

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Software for Scientists

Benchling: Github for Geneticists

Software developers have long enjoyed the ability to work together on a single project without having to go through the hurdle of sharing codes after...

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Chromochord Uses Proteins to Play Tunes

A biophysicist from the University of Chicago, Josiah Zayner has become the creator of the first musical instrument that uses proteins to produce music. The...

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Wyss Institute Researchers Create Programmable Smart Glue From DNA

Researchers at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University have developed a new programmable smart glue made of DNA  that can aid...

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DNA Used to Assemble Graphene Transistors

Engineers at Stanford have reported using DNA for the very first time to create Graphene transistors. The researchers used the biological properties of DNA to...

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