A team of cardiovascular scientists has announced it will be able to 3D print a whole heart from the recipients' own cells within a decade. "America put a man on the Moon in less than a decade. I said ...

HOUSTON – (Aug. 23, 2024) – The lotus leaf is a pioneer of self-cleaning, water-repellant engineering. Water droplets all but hover on its surface, whose unique texture traps air in its nanosized ...

Scientists recently developed an efficient way to transplant pancreatic islets and demonstrated that the method can effectively reverse type 1 diabetes in nonhuman primates. In people with type 1 ...

HOUSTON – (Nov. 10, 2022) – The cells in your body are pretty good at monitoring themselves, but they don’t always signal what’s going on to the outside world. A Rice University bioengineer has plans ...

(Phys.org) —A Stanford University bioengineer has helped develop a technology that can tweak the control systems that regulate the inner workings of cells, pointing the way toward future medical ...

A man pours liquid from a metal bowl into a jar containing orange and yellow pieces of food. The jars are surrounded by a number containers and a box of salt. Chef-turned-bioengineer Vayu Hill-Maini ...

When Charles Denby looks at a pint of beer, he sees a product of one of the oldest biotechnologies in the world. Beer- and winemaking are now under threat from climate change: experts expect the taste ...

RICHARDSON, Texas — A University of Texas at Dallas bioengineer who has devoted the first decade of his career to the study and treatment of a rare childhood cancer received some powerful extra ...

A bioengineer is designing new ways to target drugs and reduce the chances for side effects. Clemson bioengineer Frank Alexis is designing new ways to target drugs and reduce the chances for side ...

(Nanowerk News) How do you keep an artificial limb attached to the body? What lab-grown organ have scientists successfully transplanted into patients? You can find the answer to these questions and ...

Aimed at middle school and high school students, the Want to Be a Bioengineer? app from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering shows off some of the cool applications of ...