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Living Human Cartilage Grown On Lab Chip
In a significant step toward reducing the heavy toll of osteoarthritis around the world, scientists have created the first example of living human cartilage grown on a laboratory chip. The researchers...
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Bone Marrow-On-A-Chip Unveiled
The latest organ-on-a-chip from Harvard’s Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering reproduces the structure, functions and cellular make-up of bone marrow, a complex tissue that until now...
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A Hydrogel That Knows When to Go
Bioengineers at the University of Rome Tor Vergata and the University of Montreal have used DNA to develop a tool that detects and reacts to chemical changes caused by cancer cells and that may one day...
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Microbes: Direct Conversion of Biomass to Fuel
The promise of affordable transportation fuels from biomass — a sustainable, carbon neutral route to American energy independence — has been left perpetually on hold by the economics of the conversion...
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High-Speed Chemical Imaging of Tissues
A research team from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), working with the Cleveland Clinic, has demonstrated a dramatically improved technique for analyzing biological cells and...
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Bacteria for Renewable Bio-Gasoline
An international team of bioengineers has boosted the ability of bacteria to produce isopentenol, a compound with desirable gasoline properties. The finding, published in mBio, the online open-access...
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Images of a Nearly Invisible Mouse
Researchers at the RIKEN Quantitative Biology Center in Japan, together with collaborators from the University of Tokyo, have developed a method that combines tissue decolorization and light-sheet...
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Controlling Genes With Your Thoughts
It sounds like something from the scene in Star Wars where Master Yoda instructs the young Luke Skywalker to use the force to release his stricken X-Wing from the swamp: Marc Folcher and other...
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Squid Supplies Blueprint for Printable Thermoplastics
Squid, what is it good for? You can eat it and you can make ink or dye from it, and now a Penn State team of researchers is using it to make a thermoplastic that can be used in 3-D printing. “Most of...
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Maps Predict Strength of Structures
Mother-of-pearl, the iridescent layer in the shells of some mollusks, inspired a Rice University study that will help scientists and engineers judge the ultimate strength, stiffness and toughness of...
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