Biochemical Engineering

Making Tumors Tastier for the Immune System

Medgadget: Researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have developed a nanotechnology platform that can make cancer cells more vulnerable to immune attack in the body. The researchers call their system the bispecific tumor-transforming nanoconjugate (BiTN) platform….

Lab-Grown Meat Receives Clearance From F.D.A.

New York Times: The Food and Drug Administration has cleared a California company’s “slaughter-free” chicken, putting lab-grown meat one step closer to restaurant menus and grocery store shelves in the United States. On Wednesday afternoon, the agency said it had completed an…

Nanochip device may treat traumatic muscle loss

Futurity: Technology that can change skin tissue into blood vessels and nerve cells now shows promise as a treatment for traumatic muscle loss, a study with rats shows. Tissue nanotransfection is a minimally invasive nanochip device that can reprogram tissue…

Impedance Cytometry for Rapid Antibiotic Susceptibility Testing

Medgadget: Scientists at Nara Institute of Science and Technology in Japan have come up with a method to rapidly determine the antibiotic susceptibility of a bacterial sample, such as a patient sample from a non-healing infected wound. The technique is…