bioengineering

Audrey Zheng (North Allegheny Senior High School, Pittsburgh, PA) A 17-year-old student from Pennsylvania has developed an innovative…

IIT Roorkee researchers have identified key bioactive compounds in Ayurvedic Cow Urine Distillate (Gau Mutra Ark), demonstrating significant…

Spider silk is reportedly five times stronger than steel. With some genetic adjustments, silkworm silk can get even…

Fungi are truly weird and impressive—they can live anywhere, be poisonous or medicinal, and, reportedly, transform plastic waste…

A UT Dallas researcher uses a pipette to feed cultured mammalian cells. The team has developed a method…

The prospect of creating “mirror life”—synthetic cells made from molecules that are mirror images of those found in…

Genetically engineered cell lines used in biomedical research have long been prone to misidentification and unauthorized use, wasting…

Every year, pollen seasons grow longer and more intense—to the great misery of those suffering from pollen allergies—myself…

Fourteen million people worldwide suffer from enlarged hearts, or hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), a genetic disease that thickens the…

In a delicious turn of events, scientists succeeded in taking the optics of olive oil to create the…

Meet Audrey Zheng, the 17-year-old Pennsylvania student who developed a pancreatic cancer test; it correctly identified 87% of patients and 87.5% without the disease