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🧬🤖 Developmental biologists used #frog embryo cells to create neurobots that possess primitive neural networks. These self-organized systems allow the biological #robots to exhibit more complex movement patterns than previous versions.

The #research helps scientists understand how different cell types coordinate to build complex structures and behaviors.

👉 https://spectrum.ieee.org/neurobot-living-robot-nervous-system

#science #robotics #biology #neuroscience #bioengineering #technology #tech #innovation #nature #research

Living Neurobot Blurs Line Between Cells and Machines

“Neurobots” wire self-organizing circuits, pointing the way to programmable biological machines

IEEE Spectrum

Scientific Frontline 1d ago

Biological neural networks (BNNs) grown from cultured neurons can be integrated into a machine learning framework to perform supervised temporal pattern learning. This demonstrates that living cellular systems can generate complex, time-series computations previously restricted to artificial systems.
#Neuroscience #MachineLearning #Bioengineering #ComputerScience #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/04/ns04032601.html

Living Brain Cells Enable Machine Learning Computations

This research validates that living neural systems can serve as functional computational resources

CSBJ 1d ago

📢 Call for Papers: Advanced 3D Tissue Models for Improving Translational Pharmacology and Toxicology

⏳ Submission Deadline: 30 November 2026

🔗 Submit your work: https://spj.science.org/journal/csbj/si/advanced-3d-tissue-models

#CallForPapers #DrugDiscovery #Toxicology #3DTissueModels #Organoids #PrecisionMedicine #Bioengineering #Pharmacology

Scientific Frontline 5d ago

The natural supercoiling and physical twisting of DNA inside cells increase its susceptibility to unintentional, off-target cutting by the CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing system.
#MolecularBiology #Genetics #CellBiology #Bioengineering #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/03/mbio03302601.html

DNA shape explains crucial gene-therapy challenges

A mystery surrounding why powerful gene-editing technology that has driven major advances

Scientific Frontline Mar 27

HOBIT is a fully integrated, wireless implantable device that houses engineered, drug-producing cells and sustains them by actively generating local oxygen. It solves the critical challenge of keeping dense clusters of therapeutic cells alive in poorly oxygenated areas of the body, such as under the skin.
#Bioengineering #Biomedical #MaterialsScience #Engineering #Bioelectronics #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/03/beng03272601.html

Solving the oxygen problem in cell-based drug delivery

Localized oxygen generation supports dense clusters of drug-producing cells in a compact implant

Scientific Frontline Mar 25

High-pressure freezing is a novel #cryopreservation technique that utilizes extreme pressure and rapid cooling to instantaneously freeze biological samples into a noncrystalline solid state via vitrification.
#Cryobiology #Bioengineering #CellBiology #RegenerativeMedicine #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/03/beng03252601.html

Successful use of high-pressure freezing for cell cryopreservation

A high-pressure method of instantaneously freezing cells proves to be effective in the first empirical validation of its kind.

eris Mar 24

my first bioengineering project

#Seashells #Shell #Necklace #Sand #Coastal #Ocean #Bioengineering #Decorative #Minimal #Organic #Iridescent
#Img2img #AiArt #AiArtists #AiArtCommunity #StableDiffusion

on ordinary things: https://aieris.art/featured/my-first-bioengineering-project-eris-and-ai.html

katch wreck Mar 23

`In this study, Thalassiosira weissflogii was transformed into biohybrid microrobots (Mag-Diatoms) while retaining its natural chlorophyll, thereby enabling Mag-Diatom-mediated photodynamic therapy (PDT) without additional drug modification.`

http://dx.doi.org/10.1631/bdm.2500276

#diatom #microrobot #bioengineering

katch wreck Mar 19

`Here, we demonstrate artificial neurons that not only closely emulate biological neurons in functions but also match their parameters in key aspects such as signal amplitude, spiking energy, temporal features, and frequency response. Moreover, these artificial neurons can be modulated by extracellular chemical species in a manner consistent with neuromodulation in biological neurons.`

http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-63640-7

#bioengineering #neuroscience #neuron #bacteria #geobacter