Bioengineering and Biotechnology News
Posted on June 24, 2007 at 10:18:10 am
Researchers at UAB (University of Alabama at Birmingham) have new information on the structure of a key enzyme in bacteria that could lead to improved antibiotics and less antibiotic resistance.
Posted on June 22, 2007 at 10:47:19 pm
Cornell researchers hope to learn how certain bacteria that break down pollutants do their job and then to make them more effective in cleaning up toxic wastes.
Posted on June 09, 2007 at 09:44:42 pm
Skyrocketing gasoline prices and growing concern over global warming has spawned massive growth of the biofuel industry, particularly ethanol production.
Posted on June 02, 2007 at 05:43:05 pm
A team of biomedical engineers has developed a computer model that makes use of more or less predictable “guesstimates” of human muscle movements to explain how the brain draws on both what it recently learned.
Posted on May 27, 2007 at 02:34:50 am
In work that could lead to more effective diagnoses and treatments of bone diseases using only a pinhead-sized sample of a patient's bone, MIT researchers report a first-of-its-kind analysis of bone's mechanical properties.
Posted on May 12, 2007 at 11:30:29 am
Trapped in soil that was mixed with heavy oil nearly 28,000 years ago, the bacteria are uniquely adapted to the pits’ oil and natural asphalt, and contain three previously undiscovered classes of enzymes that can naturally break down petroleum products.
Posted on May 10, 2007 at 02:17:26 am
The country that produced such oddities as the planet’s only egg-laying, duck billed, mammal could also hold the secret to curing cancer, researchers believe.
Posted on May 09, 2007 at 10:05:32 am
Temple University School of Medicine researchers have developed a new biosensor that sniffs out explosives and could one day be used to detect landmines and deadly agents
Posted on May 09, 2007 at 12:29:47 am
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine have developed new technology which, combined with proteomics -- the large-scale study of the structure and function of proteins and their functions
Posted on May 06, 2007 at 02:17:43 pm
Diagnostic 3D ultrasound of fingers could be used for biometric identification based on matching paired images using internal fingerprint structures that would be difficult to fake, offering the possibility of a unique automated fingerprint identification
