A team of researchers has recently made a critical breakthrough in the pursuit of flexible electronics. The team successfully developed a high-performance magnetic memory embedded on flexible plastic material.
Even after being stretched, twisted, and bent at extreme angles, the structures sprang back to their original forms within seconds of being heated to a certain temperature “sweet spot.”
We are entering an era of directed design in which we will expand the limited notion that biology is only the ‘study of life and living things’ and see biology as the ultimate distributed, manufacturing platform.
With a year of intense brain training, eight paraplegics regained partial sensation and voluntary control of their paralyzed body areas, despite having spinal cord injuries that were previously diagnosed as irreversible.
The US Navy is creating nanowires from one of the most renewable resources on the planet.
Researchers at Harvard Medical School have "radically rewritten" the genome of bacteria E. coli.
Engineers program human cells to store complex histories in their DNA.
Based on experiments conducted in Hungary by another team of scientists that reached an erroneous conclusion, theoretical physicists at UC Irvine announced they may have come across a fifth fundamental force of nature.
A novel PET radiotracer is able for the first time to reveal epigenetic activity - the process that determines whether or not genes are expressed -within the human brain.
The new finding, to appear on August 12 in Science, increases the slim chance that something is truly amiss, rather than simply mismeasured, in the heart of atoms.
Tuning cold plasma can either promote or inhibit bone formation.
Science fiction is inching closer to reality with the development of revolutionary self-propelling liquid metals – a critical step towards future elastic electronics.
Now, for the first time, Stanford researchers have mapped out how the human body creates antibodies of every class, revealing that a diverse set of antibody-producing cells springs from the same kind of ancestor.
From deep inside a Siberian mine, researchers have cataloged a series of materials unlike any others yet found in the ground. They do, however, bear a startling similarity to certain lab-grown materials that weren't thought to exist in nature at all - until now.
Imagine a future where there is no need to cut down a tree and and reshape that raw material into a chair or table. Perhaps glowing bacteria will light our cities, and we'll be able to bring back extinct species. Synthetic biology could help us accomplish all that, and more.
