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Scientists create membraneless organelles to build proteins in living cells / Incorporation of synthetic amino acids allows completely new chemical functionality.
Mar 29th, 2019
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Patching up a heart needs the help of tiny blood vessels. Aligning dense vascular structures in engineered cardiac patches can help patients recover from a heart attack.
Mar 28th, 2019
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In one of the longest follow-up studies of its kind, researchers found that their specially bioengineered blood vessels evolved into living tissue after human implantation.
Mar 28th, 2019
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Researchers are looking to a bee 'glue' as a model for a bioinspired adhesive because of its unique properties and ability to remain sticky through a range of conditions.
Mar 27th, 2019
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Implants coated in microgel flecks could be key to reducing surgical infections.
Mar 26th, 2019
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Researchers have developed skin-inspired electronics to conform to the skin, allowing for long-term, high-performance, real-time wound monitoring in users.
Mar 26th, 2019
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New system paves the way to construct energetically-independent artificial cells.
Mar 25th, 2019
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Researchers develop a hydrogel whose stiffness and permeability to cells can be controlled with light.
Mar 25th, 2019
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New insights into epistasis could impact future drug delivery and therapeutic strategies.
Mar 19th, 2019
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Today's antibiotics are not particularly engineered to coordinate their fight against bacteria with white blood cells, the body's own first line of defense against infectors, but a new study gives hope that that could change.
Mar 18th, 2019
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Researchers created the world's first continuous-monitoring device that tests sweat as effectively as blood but in a noninvasive way and over many hours.
Mar 15th, 2019
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Researchers have created a hydrogel that could one day be made into a contact lens to more effectively treat corneal melting, a condition that is a significant cause for blindness world-wide.
Mar 12th, 2019
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Scientists produce brain organoids with primitive eyes using computational fluid dynamics.
Mar 7th, 2019
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Marine biologists report a paradigm-shifting discovery in how specialized organs in squid skin, called chromatophores, contribute to the squid's camouflage via an elegant interplay of pigmentary action and structural coloration.
Mar 7th, 2019
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With a few genetic tweaks, a type of soil bacteria with an appetite for hydrocarbons shows promise as a biological factory for converting a renewable -- but frustratingly untapped -- bounty into a replacement for ubiquitous plastics.
Mar 6th, 2019
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Digenome-seq technique reveals the accuracy of CRISPR-based editing tool that changes DNA letter A to G.
Mar 4th, 2019
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