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Scientists have completed the design phase for a fully synthetic yeast genome. Once completed, yeast cells carrying a fully artificial genome will prove invaluable for both academic and industrial applications.
Mar 9th, 2017
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A research team has developed a novel technology platform that enables the continuous and automated monitoring of so-called 'organs-on-chips' - tiny devices that incorporate living cells to mimic the biology of bona fide human organs.
Mar 8th, 2017
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Procedure could potentially treat patients with injuries to the skull.
Mar 8th, 2017
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Biomedical engineering researchers have developed inexpensive paper pumps that use capillary action to power portable microfluidic devices, opening the door to a range of biomedical tools.
Mar 8th, 2017
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Researchers achieved a new understanding of dendritic molecules which could play a role in drug and gene delivery and antimicrobial resistance.
Mar 7th, 2017
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Researchers have found a way to mimic the way cells in living organisms 'talk' to the world around them by creating a world-first synthetic receptor which can respond to chemical signals just like its natural equivalent.
Mar 6th, 2017
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For the first time, the scientists showed that membrane proteins trapped in synthetic patches of cell membrane called 'nanodiscs' can be transferred into the lipidic cubic phase and crystallized.
Mar 6th, 2017
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Biofuel produced by microalgae: The perimeter of lipid droplet in their cells is an important place for oil synthesis.
Mar 3rd, 2017
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Laser technique peers through individual cells to gauge stiffness with unprecedented speed.
Mar 1st, 2017
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A new program hopes to develop better crops - super plants that are drought-resistant, use less fertilizer and remove more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
Feb 28th, 2017
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Researchers are working to create circuits using not the usual silicon transistors but strands of DNA.
Feb 23rd, 2017
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The human heart beats more than 2.5 billion times in an average lifetime. Now scientists have created a three-dimensional organ-on-a-chip that can mimic the heart's amazing biomechanical properties.
Feb 23rd, 2017
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A collaboration between chemists and gene therapy experts produced a new way of inserting the code for modified proteins into the cells of mice. If successful in humans, the technique could be useful for vaccines or cancer therapies.
Feb 21st, 2017
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New computational methods may enable custom-designed drugs.
Feb 20th, 2017
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Powerful optical imaging technology catches DNA naturally fluorescing.
Feb 17th, 2017
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Organ-targeted metal-complex catalysis within living biological systems.
Feb 17th, 2017
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