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Engineered vessels evolve into living tissue

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

Adhesive formed from bee spit and flower oil could form basis of new glues

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

Microgels let medical implants fight off bacteria

Implants coated in microgel flecks could be key to reducing surgical infections.

Mar 26th, 2019

Wearable sensors mimic skin to help with wound healing process

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

Scientist constructs artificial photosynthetic cells

New system paves the way to construct energetically-independent artificial cells.

Mar 25th, 2019

Traffic control of cells

Researchers develop a hydrogel whose stiffness and permeability to cells can be controlled with light.

Mar 25th, 2019

Revealing the rules behind virus scaffold construction

New insights into epistasis could impact future drug delivery and therapeutic strategies.

Mar 19th, 2019

Snaring bacteria in DNA-based nets the way white blood cells do

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

Sweat holds most promise for noninvasive testing

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

Researchers create a hydrogel contact lens to treat serious eye disease

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

Increasingly complex mini-brains

Scientists produce brain organoids with primitive eyes using computational fluid dynamics.

Mar 7th, 2019

New squid study brings bio-inspired engineers ever closer to building smart skin (w/video)

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

Engineered microbe may be key to producing plastic from plants

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

Checking DNA base editor's mistakes and tricks to reduce them

Digenome-seq technique reveals the accuracy of CRISPR-based editing tool that changes DNA letter A to G.

Mar 4th, 2019

Researchers develop mini kidneys from urine cells

Scientists have successfully created kidney organoids from urine cells. This could lead to a wide range of new treatments that are less onerous for kidney patients.

Mar 4th, 2019

Gotcha! Scientists fingerprint proteins using their vibrations

Researchers show that they can quickly measure a protein's microscopic movements, opening new possibilities in medical research.

Mar 4th, 2019

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