(Click image for full view.) Graphic image of a thin film of protein nanowires generating electricity from atmospheric humidity. UMass Amherst researchers say the device…
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A new handheld 3D skin printer treats severe burns by ‘printing’ new skins cells directly onto a wound. A team of researchers in Canada have…
A Varroa mite, a common pest that can weaken bees and make them more susceptible to pathogens, feeds on a honey bee. Credit: Alex Wild/University…
Researchers at Tohoku University have developed a new type of smart contact lenses that can prevent dry eyes. The self-moisturizing system, which is described in…
Cells being manipulated and assembled. Credit: Douglas Blackiston, Tufts University Tiny ‘xenobots’ assembled from cells promise advances from drug delivery to toxic waste clean-up. A…
Bacteria producing chemicals with (left) and without (right) the bioderivitization step. With bioderivitization, the bacteria are healthier (darker green). Credit: Patrik Jones/Imperial College London Researchers…
When three specific genetic mutations are combined and tuned just right, scientists can turn tomato plants into extremely compact bushes ideal for urban agriculture. Just…
Emerging fluctuation-based functionalities are expected to open a way to novel memory device technology. An international joint research team led by NIMS succeeded in fabricating…
Combining silicon with a highly elastic polymer backing produces solar cells that have record-breaking stretchability and high efficiency. Credit: © 2019 KAUST; Heno Hwang Combining…
3D printed flexible armor. Credit: Virginia Tech The motivations for using biology as inspiration to engineering vary based on the project, but for Ling Li,…
A 3D-printed plastic rabbit. The plastic contains DNA molecules in which the printing instructions have been encoded. Credit: ETH Zurich / Julian Koch Living beings…
Cell-mimicking vesicles with enzymes incorporated into their membrane show active motility upon catalysis. Credit: Subhadip Ghosh Protocells — artificial cells — that are active and…
The University of Cincinnati used coaxial electrospinning to create a fine fiber with a core of one material surrounded by a sheath of another to…
MIT researchers have developed a method to isolate T cells that bind to different targets and then sequence their RNA. Credit: SciStories LLC Researchers develop…
First direct analysis of pathogenic sequence repeats in the human genome. Expansions of DNA repeats are very hard to analyze. A method developed by researchers…
Researchers have developed a way to 3D print living skin, complete with blood vessels. Credit: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Development is significant step toward skin grafts…
Researchers at Montana Technological University have developed a portable electrospinning device with a confined electric field that can safely deposit bandages and drugs directly onto…
Anaerobic digesters, like those pictured here, can be used to convert sewage sludge and fatty waste into natural gas. Photo credit: Rachel Schowalter. Shared by…
Contamination could be avoided in the situation where laboratory equipment can be controlled by the wave of a hand. © 2019 KAUST A magnetic skin…
A stretchable light-emitting device becomes an epidermal stopwatch. Credit: Adapted from ACS Materials Letters 2019, DOI: 10.1021/acsmaterialslett.9b00376. Imagine a runner who doesn’t need to carry…