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Biotechnology covers many different disciplines such as genetics, biochemistry or molecular biology. We report on processes that create more precise tools for disease detection and tailor treatments to individuals to combat debilitating and rare diseases.
Next step in creating lung organoids
Realistic mini-lungs, grown in lab dishes, feature all cell types that make up the human organ, allowing for “Phase 0” testing of new treatments for respiratory diseases.
Using muscle power for healing
Bioengineers have developed biocompatible generators that create electrical pulses when compressed by body motions.
Blood-repelling tissue glue seal wounds quickly
Engineers have designed a strong, biocompatible glue that can seal injured tissues and stop bleeding.
Diabetology 4.0: emerging technologies for diabetes care
This overview introduces smart insulin delivery systems and more innovations that help patients and doctors guide decision-making in diabetes care.
Blood vessels grow synthetic tissue model
Researchers have developed a cell culture system in which a functional blood vessel system is able to grow within a framework made of synthetic material.
Pancreatic organoids on a chip platform
An organoid on chip platform mimics robustly key features of human pancreas development. This is a stepping stone towards reliable diagnostic solutions for early-stage pancreatic cancer.
Immunotherapy response studied in body-on-a-chip models
Clinicians are using patient-specific tumor 'organoid' models as a preclinical companion platform to better evaluate immunotherapy treatment for appendiceal cancer.
Nano-scale borate bioactive glass for skin-healing
Researchers have constructed a nano-scale borate bioactive glass that can effectively reduces the biological toxicity of borate bioglass and improves the biocompatibility of the glass.
Tuning collagen threads for biohybrid robots
Researchers are taking steps to incorporate actual muscles or neurons into a robotic system.
Skeletal scaffold supports bone cells
3D models of bone formation provide a tool for tissue engineering, biomedical research and drug testing.
Hydrogel protects heart from post-op adhesions
Researchers have designed a device to safely and accurately spray the hydrogel inside the area where open heart surgery is being performed.
All your digital photos could be stored as DNA
Biological engineers have demonstrated a way to easily retrieve data files stored as DNA. This could be a step toward using DNA archives to store enormous quantities of photos, images, and other digital content.
Quantum microscope can see the impossible
In a major scientific leap, researchers have created a quantum microscope that can reveal biological structures that would otherwise be impossible to see.
Bioprinter speeds up drug development
A 3D printer that rapidly produces large batches of custom biological tissues could help make drug development faster and less costly.
Healing hydrogel materials recover from stress
Researchers have developed biocompatible hydrogel materials can rapidly recover from mechanical stress.
Self-aware materials for living structures
Researchers at University of Pittsburgh have developed a revolutionary scalable material that senses and powers itself.
Microfluidics: efficiently smuggling drugs into cells
Progressive Mechanoporation makes it possible to mechanically disrupt the membranes of cells for a short time period and let drugs or genes inside cells.
To be or not to be an organoid
Scientists at Utrecht University have published a first consensus on what is and what is not an organoid.
3D Printing living cells with unprecedented precision
The combination of a 2Photon 3D-printer with an innovative hydrogel-based bioink allows the direct printing of 3D structures containing living cells at both the meso- and microscale.
CRISPRoff offers unrivaled control of epigenetic inheritance
Scientists have figured out how to modify CRISPR’s basic architecture to extend its reach beyond the genome and into what’s known as the epigenome.
Designing better antibody drugs with machine learning
Artificial intelligence could help to optimise the development of antibody drugs. This leads to active substances with improved properties, also with regard to tolerability in the body.
Organoids grown in 3D-printed bioreactor
Scientists have grown small amounts of self-organizing brain tissue, known as organoids, in a tiny 3D-printed system that allows observation while they grow and develop.
Synthetic mucins mimic the structure of naturally occurring mucins
Researchers have created polymers that replicate the structure of mucins, the molecules that give mucus its unique antimicrobial properties.
Nanotechnology detects bone-healing stem cells
Researchers have developed a new way of using nanomaterials to identify and enrich skeletal stem cells – a discovery which could eventually lead to new treatments for major bone fractures.
A conductive hydrogel for medical applications
Researchers have developed a method to produce graphene-enhanced hydrogels with an excellent level of electrical conductivity.
Lab-created heart valves can grow with the recipient
Researchers have shown that lab-created heart valves implanted in young lambs for a year were capable of growth within the recipient.
Adaptive microelectronics reshape independently
Nanoscientists have developed adaptive microelectronics that can move independently according to sensor data and align themselves specifically for activities - possible applications in biomedicine and bioneural interfacing.
Multicellular liver-on-a-chip for modeling fatty liver disease
Researchers have developed a structurally representative liver-on-a-chip model which mimics the full progression sequence of NAFLD.