Bioengineering and Biotechnology News

System should help scientists better understand how nerve cells in the brain work together to form the nervous system.

Engineers have for the first time used manufacturing techniques at microscopic scales to combine a flexible, biologically safe contact lens with an imprinted electronic circuit and lights.

Scientists are on the verge of decoding the special chemical language that bacteria use to "talk" to each other, British researchers report.

By genetically manipulating flies to express odorant receptors in one olfactory organ or both, researchers have shown that the brains of Drosophila melanogaster larvae not only make use of stereo cues to locate odors but also to navigate toward them

Harry Potter may not have talked much about plasmonics in J. K. Rowling's fantasy series, but researchers are using this emerging technology to develop an invisibility cloak that exists beyond the world of bespectacled teenage wizards.

It is not science fiction to think that our eyes could very soon be the key to unlocking our homes, accessing our bank accounts and logging on to our computers.

MIT engineers have designed the first simple process for manufacturing materials that strongly repel oils.

Device intended to chemically “reenergize” carbon dioxide into carbon monoxide using concentrated solar power. The carbon monoxide could then be used to make hydrogen or serve as a building block to synthesize a liquid combustible fuel, such as methanol.

A water repellent developed by researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory outperforms nature at its best and could open a floodgate of commercial possibilities.

Imagine paint that adheres to a surface, but releases on command or road signs that change their reflectivity with changing weather conditions.