One Quarter of Germans Would Embrace an Implantable Microchip
Privacy-loving Americans have roundly rejected the idea of implanting microchips within their bodies, but one in four Germans is enthusiastic about the idea of having a chip…
View ArticleStylish Fraunhofer Lab-in-a-Wristwatch Warns of Impending Medical Emergencies...
According to Megadeth there are 99 ways to die, but many of those -- blood clots, dehydration, heart attacks -- can be hard to detect except with a thorough medical…
View ArticleResearchers Unlock the Secrets to Bacteria's Super-Efficient Microscopic...
American motor engineering prides itself on muscle while German engineering is known for speed and precision, but neither of these century-old crafts can stand up to the…
View ArticleJudge Bans Future Plantings of Genetically Modified Sugar Beets, Throwing...
Readers with a sweet tooth had better start stockpiling candy -- first Choc Finger started hoarding all the world's chocolate, and now it seems the U.S. sugar supply may be…
View ArticleTaking Cues From Medical Tech, Big Oil Could Use Nanoparticles to Hunt for...
You can't throw a rock in the realm of biotech right now without hitting some scheme or another for tapping the unique properties of nanoparticles to hunt tumors, target drug…
View ArticleGovernment Says Biotech Companies Can Be Their Own Safety Testers
Biotech companies will soon perform their own studies to determine whether their genetically modified seeds are safe for the environment, according to a new federal plan. That means companies like...
View ArticleMicrorockets Can Zip Around the Human Stomach, Powered by Hydrogen Bubbles
Tiny machines that can enter our bloodstreams and do work inside of our bodies are a staple of both science fiction and real-world biomedical science, as MEMS and other…
View ArticleThe First Drug Made by Genetically Modified Plants is Approved for Human Use...
Big news on the pharma front today: for the first time the U.S. Federal Drug Administration has approved a drug for humans that was produced in a genetically engineered plant…
View ArticleHerd Of Secret Drug Goats Discovered At Biotech Ranch
,"migrated":true}]]Let's say you're a giant biotech company in sunny California, and you have a big ranch where you keep thousands of goats. You use the goats to produce all…
View ArticleBurglars Beware: New Material Steams, Foams Upon Break-In
,"migrated":true}]]When bombardier beetles are attacked, they mix chemicals in their body to create a rapid and violent reaction, squirting out a concoction that's corrosive…
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Twitter Turns Down The CRISPR Hype
Andrew Maynard via TwitterThe gene editing technique CRISPR was launched from relative public obscurity to the mainstream today when #CRISPRfacts began trending on Twitter, quieting some of the hype...
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Virtual Reality Screens Could Soon Be Tailored To Your Glasses Prescription
Screenshot; Vitor Fernando Pamplona via YouTubeA demonstration of NETRA, the vision-testing technology developed by EyeNetraEyeNetra, a startup that has created technology to develop inexpensive,...
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Why our biotech future needs design
by Philips DesignMicrobial Home (2011)Philips combined microbes, bioreactors and kitchen waste to explore the sustainable homes of the future in Microbial Home.In 2007, physicist Freeman Dyson...
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Web Wear: A New Coat Is Made From Biotech Spider Silk
Courtesy of Spiber Inc.The Moon Parka, a prototype by Spiber and The North Face, is made from synthetic spider silk.For the past three weeks, outdoor apparel maker The North Face and materials company...
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A New Way To Make Resistant Plants
[free photos/Flickr]Researchers at MSU engineered arabidopsis to better withstand both insect and pathogen attacks simultaneously. Next up, perhaps: Tomatoes and soy.Plants have to deal with a lot of...
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3D Bioprinter Creates Bone, Muscle--And Cartilage For This Ear
Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine3D printed synthetic tissueSynthetic cartilage printed in the form of an ear by the Integrated Tissue-Organ Printing System at Wake Forest...
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A New Shrimp Simulacrum Hopes To Take Plates By Storm
Technology Your next shrimp pad thai might be shrimp-free The future of shrimp will include algae, protein powder, and will be baked like bread.
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We Could Be Making Many Household Products From Wood, Not Oil
Environment Back to our roots Oil doesn’t just run our cars, trucks and buses. Many of our household products, from plastics to medications, are made in part from petroleum products. But as oil is a…
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Plan Could Be First Use Of CRISPR To Gene-Edit Humans
Health The National Institutes of Health will review it next week The University of Pennsylvania proposes a new cancer treatment using CRISPR on human cells…
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This "Just Add Water" Chemistry Kit Can Create On-Demand Drugs And Vaccines
Health To help save this world and the next Researchers at Harvard’s Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering are working on a system that could allow for inexpensive, rapid manufacturing...
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