Bioengineering

Keeping Watch On Glucose

New monitors help fight the long-term complications of diabetes

Synthetic Skin

Can robots, computers, and chip-making techniques save tissue engineering and bring internal organs to market?

A Difficult Time For Depression Devices

Mood-disorder treatment has eluded the makers of brain stimulators. Will the next round of research fare better?

A Brainy Approach to Image Sorting

DARPA project reads the brain waves of image analysts to speed up intelligence triage

Doomsday Vault

News brief

Fiber to the Brain

Polymer nanowires threaded through the bloodstream may be a practical way to enter the cranium

Untangling a New Breast Cancer Screening Technology

An Australian company takes on a controversial technique to screen for breast cancer: X-raying hair

Visualizing Electronic Health Records With "Google-Earth for the Body"

IBM researchers develop 3-D visualization tool for electronic health records

Semcad X Jungfrau Marks the Spot (the Hot Spot)

Now you can predict not only how much radio energy will be absorbed by human tissue but how much hotter the tissue will get

RFID inside

The murky ethics of implanted chips

Bioethics and The Brain

Microelectronics and medical imaging are bringing us closer to a world where mind reading is possible and blindness banished—but we may not want to live there

Engineering the Harvard Engineer

One man's determined quest to make Harvard a contender in engineering—after 372 years

Visualizing Electronic Health Records With "Google-Earth for the Body"

IBM researchers develop 3-D visualization tool for electronic health records

Nano particles Without Macroproblems

Quick and dirty advice for keeping nanotech clean

Double Helix Jeopardy

DNA databases help solve crimes but aid and abet racial discrimination

Neuromorphic Vision Chips

ICs that mimic the structure of the retina turn shifting light and shade into moving edges and surfaces, much as the eyes do in serving the visual cortex.

A Brainy Approach to Image Sorting

DARPA project reads the brain waves of image analysts to speed up intelligence triage

Me, My Genes, and I

Untangling a New Breast Cancer Screening Technology

An Australian company takes on a controversial technique to screen for breast cancer: X-raying hair

A Weaker, Cheaper MRI

Magnetic fields that would barely budge a compass might find tumors faster

Biological Warfare Canaries

In the face of germ warfare, just knowing you are under attack is half the battle

Tell Us What You Think

Why Losers?

We don't do this because we're mean spirited. We do it because we care

You Tell Us

Winning ideas are often doomed by poor execution or by nothing more than being ahead of their time. Here are a few products that could go either way. Tell us how you think they'll fare.

Robo-girls

All-girl teams make their presence felt at regional high school robotics competitions