With a long history of development, mRNA vaccines are finally making their debut and changing the face of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Lighting up hydrogels
A new class of hydrogels leverage light for better drug delivery and regenerative medicine treatment.
A biochip with organ-specific tissue models for advanced drug screening
A new biochip can quickly evaluate anticancer drug toxicity and penetration across an advanced blood–brain barrier model.
Keeping immune cells in check to ward off diabetes
Bioengineered pancreatic beta cells adorned with immune checkpoint proteins prevent the progression of type 1 diabetes.
3D printing lays the foundation for a new range of diagnostic tests
A new 3D-printing technique makes rapid self-tests based on lateral flow technology less expensive and easier to scale.
Microneedle patch delivers antibiotics locally in the skin
A microneedle patch that delivers antibiotics directly into the affected skin area could help treat deadly bacterial infections.
Big lessons from tiny flies
The flies may be tiny, but they can teach us the greatest of lessons in cancer biology and beyond.
Vaccination by inhalation
Delivering vaccines directly to the lungs can boost immune responses to respiratory infections or lung cancer, study finds.
“Evolution‐on‐a‐chip” device helps reveal mutations that lead to superbugs
A well-based microfluidic device allows researchers to generate important data that are needed to better understand the parameters that influence evolution in bacteria to combat antibiotic resistance.
What is CRISPR?
Here we take a look at how CRISPR, the revolutionary “molecular scissors”, works and where its being used.