Science fact catches up with science fiction: by exploiting magnetic levitation, biomanufacturing – creating living 3D structures – is now possible in zero gravity. Utkan Demirci discusses how this works.
Biotechnology
Engineering Functional Cardiac Tissue
Researchers investigated whether a spider silk protein developed in the laboratory could be suitable for engineering cardiac tissue.
Bone Repair: A Breaking Story
Researchers in Barcelona have proposed a new mechanism for bone repair. They hope that the work might pave the way for advances in self-healing prostheses.
Structural Insights of Glycogen Metabolism in Exercise and Health
An integrative approach of modeling and hydrogen-deuterium exchange helps to describe the enzyme that regulates glycogen levels in muscles and liver.
Biocatalysis with Trapped Bacteria
Bacteria trapped inside porous beads function as efficient living biocatalysts and can be assembled to perform preprogrammed sequences of reactions.
Photoacoustic Computed Tomography to Help Understand the Brain
A team of American scientists used photoacoustic computed tomography to image the blood vascular network of a whole mouse brain through the intact skull, with high resolution and substantial depth.
How to “Grow” a Solar Cell
Biophotovoltaic devices by incorporation of oriented Photosystem I via phage display.
Electrically Driven Bio-Inspired Soft Robots
Researchers design a bio-inspired batoid robot from non-toxic hydrogels operated with Au microelectrodes.
Natural Wood for Clean Water
Water is a resource that humans cannot live without. It is considered one of the major global challenges faced by our world. Current desalination techniques have limitations, including salt accumulation, and extracting water from ground sources has been less studied....
Artificial Muscles – The Vision of Outperforming Human Muscles
A detailed analysis of existing optimization methods, and discussion on the virtues and shortcomings of each method with respect to the various transduction principles such as energy harvesting and actuation, is presented.
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