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 ...

Back in 2015, a 40-year-old synthetic biologist named Christina Smolke, along with a small team of researchers at Stanford, made a huge discovery. They proved that a genetically engineered yeast could ...

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 ...

UC San Diego bioengineer Kiana Aran spent five days sealed inside a pitch-black chamber in rural Poland last November, ...

Rice University bioengineer Omid Veiseh has been awarded a $2.2 million grant from the Gates Foundation to develop implantable cell factory platforms that can deliver therapeutic antibodies over ...

With $300,000 in support from a foundation that champions cutting-edge medical research, a biomedical engineer at UC Davis will start work this month on developing a new treatment for infants born ...

If you've eaten vegan burgers that taste like meat or used synthetic collagen in your beauty routine—both products that are "grown" in the lab—then you've benefited from synthetic biology. It's a ...

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 ...

(TNS) — More than 100,000 people in the U.S. are stuck on an organ transplant wait list, hoping to find that perfect match to their blood type, body size and hospital location. But many — 20 per day, ...

Tech Moves covers notable hires, promotions and personnel changes in the Pacific NW tech community. Submissions: [email protected] by Cara Kuhlman on Sep 16, 2021 at 8:31 am September 27, 2021 at ...

“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.