Biochemical Engineering

Climate change and the battle for Canada’s forests

Financial Times: Centuries-old forests dotting the landscape in British Columbia, Canada’s westernmost province, have become a battleground for two schools of thought about curbing climate change: one that wants to use their biomass for green power, and another anxious to protect…

mRNA Will Do More than Conquer COVID

Discover Magazine: The development of the mRNA vaccine — a breakthrough in its field, instructing cells to produce their own protection without the risk of giving someone the virus — was fast and furious, made possible through rapid genome sequencing. But its origins go back to the late 1980s, when…

Handheld Bioprinter Could One Day Heal Astronaut Injuries

3DPrint.com: A SpaceX Dragon resupply mission carrying 6,500 pounds of science experiments, including a handheld bioprinter prototype, is on its way to the International Space Station (ISS) after launching on December 21, 2021, from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida….

This Startup Is Making—and Programming—Human Cells

Wired UK: Our cells are packed with unrealized potential. Almost every human cell contains the genetic information it needs to become any other kind of cell. A skin cell, for example, has the same genes as a muscle cell or a…