Researchers are engineering microbes to deliver therapeutics specifically to tumors, maximizing the treatments’ efficacy while minimizing side effects.

Autonomous, living microrobots that seek and destroy cancer are not as futuristic as one might imagine, thanks to a fusion of robotics and synthetic biology.

Jellyfish fitted with energy efficient controllers could one day find a job on ocean explorations.

A bioengineered heart made of pig and synthetic tissues beats like the real thing.

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

Scientists create a micro-CT scan image of Drosophila in fine detail.

This fish-inspired robot swims at greater speeds than previous ones.

The developers envision their device could be used to collect water samples in hazardous environments.

See a tiny, jellyfish-like robot swim, burrow, and carry beads.

Developers made an insect-like robot with two pairs of wings.

Scientists create a soft-bodied robotic fish that pumps synthetic blood and swims on its own.

The Carnegie Mellon computational biologist thinks machine learning algorithms can direct high-throughput experiments to solve the field’s unanswered questions.

The robotic catheter can guide its own movements within the heart of a live mammal to the site of a leaky valve replacement.

Robots integrated into groups of zebrafish and of one-day-old honey bees allow the two species to influence each other’s behavior.

From 500-million-year-old fat to a newly discovered virus, here are some stunners from The Scientist in 2018.

University of California, San Diego, graduate student Caleb Christianson explains the development of his eel-inspired robot.

Scientists who designed a marine robot to survey ocean life were inspired by eel larvae.

The device could one day help enable prosthetics deliver richer touch information to users.

The devices, which could one day treat children with esophageal atresia and short bowel, were recently tested in pigs.