Could viruses be put to a better use, instead devising plots to ransack the usable? What about using them to fashion microscopic batteries?
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Tissue Engineers Creating Complex Tissue They Call Living Legos
Living Legos: Polymer building blocks whose complexity mimics that of human tissues.
Tissue engineers are ambitious. If they had their way, a dialysis patient could receive a new kidney made in the lab from his own cells, instead of waiting for a donor organ that his immune system might reject. Likewise, a diabetic could, with grafts of lab-made pancreatic tissue, be given the ability to make insulin again. But tissue engineering has stalled in part because bioengineers haven’t been able to replicate the structural complexity of human tissues. Now researchers have taken an important first step toward building complex tissues from the bottom up by creating what they call living Legos. These building blocks, biofriendly gels of various shapes studded with cells, can self-assemble into complex structures resembling those found in tissues.
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Engineers Build First Self-Replicating 3D Machine
Now That’s A Face Only A Mother Could Love
As biologists are busy working on cloning living organisms, engineers are working on a mechanical counterpart – creating non-living things that can replicate themselves.
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Japan is Running Out of Engineers
The engineer shortage in Japan can be directly attributed to the latest fashion – the mummy look
Japan is running out of engineers.
After years of fretting over coming shortages, the country is actually facing a dwindling number of young people entering engineering and technology-related fields.
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