Category: Bioengineering
CD8 cytotoxic T lymphocytes.
Scientists have engineered immune cells that attack and kill HIV.
Post date: Friday, March 7th, 2008.
Safflower.
Plant that a company has genetically modified to produce human insulin. (via)
Post date: Thursday, July 20th, 2006.
Antascomicin B.
Nerve-regenerating molecule scarcely found in nature that researchers are trying to build from scratch. (via)
Post date: Wednesday, July 19th, 2006.
Bacterial nanowires.
Microbiologist discovers that bacteria can sprout tiny wires called pili which can be bioengineered to power electronic devices. (via)
Post date: Tuesday, July 11th, 2006.
Spermatogonial stem cells.
Scientists grow mice in the lab from artificial sperm. (via)
Post date: Tuesday, July 11th, 2006.
Alpha-farnesene.
Scientists have synthetically reproduced the fruit compound responsible for the natural smell of green apples.
Post date: Tuesday, July 11th, 2006.
Dielectrophoresis.
Scientists use electricity to build up layers of cells and engineer real human tissue. (via)
Post date: Wednesday, July 5th, 2006.
5-hydroxymethylfurfural.
Chemical intermediate derived from fructose sugar that can be turned into plastic. (via)
Post date: Saturday, July 1st, 2006.
CB-Hep.1
Antibody engineered from a genetically modified tobacco plant is being used in the production of a hepatitis vaccine. (via)
Post date: Tuesday, June 27th, 2006.
Electrospinning.
Fabrication process that produces bioactive vascular grafts designed to help patients regenerate new arteries. (via)
Post date: Monday, June 19th, 2006.
Tissue-engineered grafts.
Scientists engineer skeletal tissue to be electrically conductive and beat like a heart. (via)
Post date: Monday, June 19th, 2006.
High-tensile nanocomposite.
Scientists engineer a strong new nanomaterial by fusing silica and spider silk.
Post date: Wednesday, June 14th, 2006.
CGK733.
Scientists have created a molecule that prevents cells from aging.
Post date: Wednesday, June 14th, 2006.
Brassinosteroids.
Plant hormone that when altered may allow people to control the growth of plants and grasses. (via)
Post date: Tuesday, May 30th, 2006.
Ventria Bioscience.
Company has developed a drug to combat diarrhea by growing rice engineered with human protein.
Post date: Tuesday, May 16th, 2006.
hTERT-Ad.
Engineered virus that causes brain tumors to eat themselves. (via)
Post date: Wednesday, May 3rd, 2006.
Artificial compound eye.
Bioengineers used an array of 8700 hexagonal microlenses to successfully mimick the honeycomb pattern of an insect eye.
Post date: Thursday, April 27th, 2006.
Neuron-powered CPU.
Rat nerve cell has been used to successfully ping a semiconductor computer chip. (via)
Post date: Monday, April 24th, 2006.
Nanowires.
Researchers build tiny batteries using viruses as power. (via)
Post date: Thursday, April 6th, 2006.
Bone morphogenetic protein 6.
Growth factor that converts cells derived from human fat into cartilage. (via)
Post date: Wednesday, April 5th, 2006.
GeneDupe.
California company is fusing computing with biology in a process they call virtual cell biology to one day create real life dragons. (via)
Post date: Friday, March 31st, 2006.
Organometallic compounds.
Scientists engineer nanoparticles on top of a plant virus. (via)
Post date: Tuesday, March 21st, 2006.
Transgenic mosquito.
Researchers have engineered mosquitoes to be resistant to infection by dengue fever virus.
Post date: Thursday, March 9th, 2006.
Chlamydomonas reinhardtii.
Algae strain is being engineered to produce all of the world’s hydrogen needs.
Post date: Friday, February 24th, 2006.
GeneDesign.
Computer program that helps scientists design DNA sequences.
Post date: Thursday, February 16th, 2006.
Faux gristle.
Scientists successfully produce synthetic human collagen. (via)
Post date: Tuesday, February 14th, 2006.
Physarum polycephalum.
Yellow mold is being used to control a robot. (via)
Post date: Monday, February 13th, 2006.
Directed evolution.
Scientists have manipulated a benign virus to bypass the immune system and act as a delivery agent for gene therapy.
Post date: Wednesday, February 8th, 2006.
RuBisCO.
Scientists have engineered an enzyme in plants to remove carbon dioxide more quickly from the atmosphere.
Post date: Wednesday, February 1st, 2006.
Hydroxyapatite-polymer composite.
Scientists have mimicked the way seawater freezes to create a strong porous bone-like material.
Post date: Tuesday, January 31st, 2006.
Mesenchymal stem cells.
Scientists will try to make bones from human blood. (via)
Post date: Monday, January 30th, 2006.
Ankyrin repeats.
Spiral-shaped protein coils discovered that generate force when extended or contracted and act like miniature springs.
Post date: Monday, January 23rd, 2006.
Lactococcus lactis.
Scientists have modified yogurt bacteria to release a drug that blocks the HIV virus.
Post date: Tuesday, January 17th, 2006.
F1-V fusion antigen.
Researchers have modified tobacco plants to produce a vaccine strong enough to combat plague. (via)
Post date: Tuesday, January 17th, 2006.
What’s up, Doc?
Scientists want to create a human-rabbit embyo. (via)
Post date: Friday, January 13th, 2006.
Chloroplast genetic engineering.
Molecular biologist has grown anthrax vaccine in tobacco plants. (via)
Post date: Tuesday, December 20th, 2005.
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