Biochemical Engineering

Forget Lasers. The Hot New Tool for Physicists Is Sound

Wired UK: Yushun Zeng squishes cancer cells in a petri dish at work. No, not with his ungainly, macroscopic human fingers. Zeng, an engineering graduate student at the University of Southern California, has built a device that traps and compresses the…

Holes help shed light on novel medical devices

Materials Today: Holes help to make sponges and English muffins useful (and in the case of the latter, delicious). Without holes, sponges wouldn’t be flexible enough to bend into small crevices, and muffins wouldn’t be able to sop up the perfect…

Plastic-eating worms offer solution to waste crisis

E&T Magazine: University of Queensland researchers discovered the common Zophobas morio ‘superworm’ can eat through polystyrene, thanks to a bacterial enzyme in their gut. They fed superworms different diets over a three-week period, with some given polystyrene foam, some bran and…

Bioprinted Meat and Fungi Could Result in New Hybrid Meat Products for MeaTech

3DPrint.com: MeaTech (NASDAQ: MITC)’s Belgian subsidiary, Peace of Meat, a leader in cultured avian biomass, signed a deal with Scottish mycoprotein startup Enough to speed up market entry of…