As the climate crisis deepens and the impacts are felt more often and more acutely worldwide, scientific, engineering, and policy communities need more tools and opportunities to make a difference in ...

Synthetic biology aims to apply engineering principles and the design process to create biological systems with new and desired functionalities 1. While it is seen by many as a young field that ...

Australian researchers are turning to nature for the next computing revolution, harnessing living cells and biological systems as potential replacements for traditional silicon chips. A new paper from ...

Now That We Can Do Anything, What Should We Do? In the world of synthetic biology—where scientists and engineers can rewire biological systems to perform remarkable new tasks, like sensing chemicals ...

Hazards posed by using data-centric methods to engineer biology have been identified by experts at the University of Bristol with the aim of making future research safer. The potential misuse of ...

The marriage of data, new algorithms, and biology is leading to innovative engineering of biological processes and the development of new healthcare treatments and diagnostic products and services. At ...

This program applies basic scientific and engineering principles to the design, development and operation of large-scale, bio-based product manufacturing, such as food and pharmaceuticals. Such ...

An artificially intelligent machine that acts as a human exocortex, a system that will interface with and make an old brain tick normally. Human cells that can sense metastatic cancer or the ...

Life has transformed our world over billions of years, turning a dead rock into the lush, fertile planet we know today. But human activity is currently transforming Earth again, this time by releasing ...

Yookta Pandit won third place and $1200 at Regeneron for creating a wearable system that predicts epileptic seizures.

The undergraduate minor in biological engineering teaches students to create biological processes and products for application in a myriad of fields, from pharmaceuticals to biomaterials to ...