Tag: Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering
An essential step toward printing living tissues
New method enables engineers to print tissue constructs with blood vessels
A new bioprinting method developed at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences...
Injectable therapy could help people avoid mastectomy
A novel breast-cancer therapy that partially reverses the cancerous state in cultured breast tumor cells and prevents cancer development in mice, could one day...
Harvard machine-learning algorithms could make chemical reactions intelligent
Computer scientists at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University have...
Radical Recoding: Researchers advance toward engineering ‘wildly new genome’
In two parallel projects, researchers have created new genomes inside the bacterium E. coli in ways that test the limits of genetic reprogramming, opening...
DNA glue directs tiny gel ‘bricks’ to self-assemble
A team of researchers at the Wyss Institute of Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University has found a way to self-assemble complex structures out...
Cancer vaccine begins Phase I clinical trials
A cross-disciplinary team of Harvard scientists, engineers, and clinicians announced today that they have begun a Phase I clinical trial of an implantable vaccine...
Transparent artificial muscle doubles as an audio speaker
In a materials science laboratory at Harvard University, a transparent disk connected to a laptop fills the room with music—it’s the “Morning” prelude from...
FDA awards contract to organs-on-chip lab for radiation countermeasures
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has awarded a $5.6 million contract to Harvard University’s Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering to apply its...
