bioengineering

The patient, who has ALS, is able to communicate in complete sentences by deliberately altering his brain’s activity.

A technique that reversibly bundles tagged cargo into artificial membraneless compartments gives scientists the ability to switch cell processes on and off.

The legislation, which now heads to the House, aims to ensure the country can compete with China technologically by supporting research and development over the next five years.

Two of the implanted valves lasted a full year as the animals matured into adult sheep, demonstrating that it might be possible to treat children with valve replacements that grow along with them.

This year yielded stunning images of transparent human organs, apex predators, and the world’s response to the ongoing pandemic.

A newly engineered synthetic blood vessel offers a novel platform for developing drugs that treat high blood pressure.

There’s a new cell-based cancer immunotherapy on the block.

An experimental tissue engineering treatment that addresses damage at both the inner core and outer ring of sheep intervertebral discs improves spinal structure and function.

Researchers and clinicians make small muscle grafts into the arms of amputees to amplify the signals from their peripheral nerves, which then direct the movement of a robotic hand.

Three-dimensional polymer matrices offer researchers a new representation of the extracellular matrix that can be used to study the growth of cancer cells.

Scientists carve the shapes from piles of frog cells, like a sculptor building a statue.

A 3-D printed rabbit is made from a blueprint stored in DNA, which itself is stored in a printed rabbit.

Physicists, geneticists, computer scientists, and biologists are working together to gain a full appreciation of the intricacies of organismal growth and form.

Technology is enabling increasingly lifelike models of organs to help doctors practice operations.

A new portable instrument could help to lure useful bugs in from the wild.

Genes inserted into the yeast genome produce the compounds CBD and THC in the microbes.

The pea-size machine uses body fluids as fuel to propel itself through the digestive tract.