Bioengineering and Biotechnology News

Chemists have developed a tiny, inexpensive sensor chip capable of detecting trace amounts of hydrogen peroxide, a chemical used in the most common form of homemade explosives.

Research that started with bacteria from the Chesapeake Bay has led to a process that may be able to convert large volumes of all kinds of plant products, from leftover brewer's mash to paper trash, into ethanol and other biofuel alternatives to gasoline.

A team led by a Purdue University researcher has achieved images of a virus in detail two times greater than had previously been achieved.

A University of Arizona researcher has created a new system to dramatically show American cities their relative level of vulnerability to bioterrorism.

A Canada-U.S. research team has solved a major genetic mystery: How a protein in some people's DNA guards them against killer immune diseases such as HIV.

Scientists at the University of York have characterised an important new step in the mechanism used by bacteria to evade our immune system.

System should help scientists better understand how nerve cells in the brain work together to form the nervous system.

Engineers have for the first time used manufacturing techniques at microscopic scales to combine a flexible, biologically safe contact lens with an imprinted electronic circuit and lights.

Scientists are on the verge of decoding the special chemical language that bacteria use to "talk" to each other, British researchers report.

By genetically manipulating flies to express odorant receptors in one olfactory organ or both, researchers have shown that the brains of Drosophila melanogaster larvae not only make use of stereo cues to locate odors but also to navigate toward them