Japan’s Keio University awards the prize annually to honor contributions in medicine and life sciences. Brangwynne is being ...

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 ...

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 ...

In October, the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) released its biennial Living Planet Report, detailing the state of the planet and its implications for humans and wildlife. The report warned that two-thirds ...

Professor Merryn Tawhai, the director of the Auckland Bioengineering Institute, on reimagining healthcare with virtual ...

“I think it’s quite likely that we’d want to bioengineer new organisms that are better suited to living on Mars,” Musk said during a recorded 2013 interview, as quoted by Forbes that same year.

Inspired by the biological processes that drive natural selection, Caltech biochemical engineer Frances Arnold launched a field called “directed evolution” and revolutionized the way researchers ...

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 ...

Geek of the Week profiles the characters of Pacific Northwest tech, science, games, innovation and more. See the Geek of the Week archive for more. by Kurt Schlosser on Dec 13, 2019 at 12:30 pm ...

Researchers have discovered that Pseudomonas bacteria can detect the speed (shear rate) of flow regardless of the force. By linking the flow-detecting gene to one responsible for illumination, they ...

Eating a placenta may not give you the health benefits some people want you to believe it has, but using it as a bandage might. The placenta is an organ created during pregnancy that provides ...

The students used advanced laboratory techniques to enable a protein from bacteria to produce a dye that binds with cotton, useful for coloring textiles in an environmentally friendly process. Taylor ...