Biophysics and bioengineering

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Tissue engineering moves closer to 3D printing inside the body

3D printed brain model shows potential for drug testing

Bioprinted brain-like tissue constructs that stay viable for more than a month offer a good platform for neurological drug testing

App for low-cost smartphones can diagnose malaria

Smartphone app uses deep learning to detect malaria parasites in blood samples

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Neutrons join the battle against COVID-19, firm aims for a million-qubit quantum computer, cyanobacteria power a solar cell

An artist's impression of the new imaging method

Biochemical quantitative phase imaging goes photothermal

Micro-CT enables first non-destructive characterization of asthma medicines

Dynamic stimulation of visual cortex lets blind people ‘see’ shapes

Using electrical stimulation to dynamically trace letters directly on patients' brains enabled them to 'see' the intended letter shapes

Bio-bots with spinal cords have natural walking rhythm

Researchers have developed miniature biological robots that move naturally when a spinal cord is added

Solitons from new fibre laser could improve eye surgery

Short and powerful pulses are held together by high-order dispersion

Fluids flow faster in liquid-walled channels

Replacing solid tube walls with magnetically confined ferrofluids reduces friction dramatically, providing a new way to pump blood without damaging it

Artificial eye has the potential to outperform human vision

New device could help visually impaired people

Droplets created by speech could contribute to COVID-19 spread, new study suggests

Speaking loudly for just a minute broadcasts more than 1000 virions

Reports on biofabrication

Cotton yarn flexes its muscles

Researchers make smart materials from ordinary cotton using a twisting and plying technique

Tailored implant surfaces could help direct immune response

Surface modification of orthopaedic implants can boost tissue regeneration, minimize infections and help direct the body’s immune response

PSU aspiration bioprinted on the bottom of a glass Petri dish

Suction forces enable precise bioprinting

Aspiration-assisted technique could be used in regenerative medicine, tissue engineering and the creation of “organs-on-a-chip” for drug testing and disease modelling

Taking a tiger’s pulse, mending a broken heart and dancing your PhD

Excerpts from the Red Folder

Tina Tylek, Jürgen Groll and Carina Blum

Precision scaffolds tailor biomaterials to promote wound healing

Box-shaped 3D tissue scaffolds cause human macrophages to switch into a pro-healing type, for use in biomaterial-based wound dressings

Cells thrive in blood-based bioink

3D bioprinted structures made with human platelet-derived bioink are particularly hospitable to cells, promoting proliferation without the need for animal products

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Nano-optomechanical resonator detects low-frequency bacteria vibrations

Spectrometry technique offers a new way to classify biological particles

Wearable supercapacitor stores energy using human sweat

Device eliminates the need for harmful battery electrolytes

Bioimpedance analyser tracks blood redistribution in spinning cosmonauts

Bioimpedance analysis can monitor blood circulation changes during rotation on a short-radius centrifuge used to explore artificial gravity

Measuring molecules with nanometre precision

Motion-correction technique ramps the resolution of single-molecule localization microscopy twentyfold

Extreme UV imaging visualizes mouse neurons at ultrahigh resolution

Highly detailed images of neurons created using lensless extreme UV imaging could help in the study of neurodegenerative diseases

Matrix factorization algorithms help track neuronal activity

New technique overcomes the problem of strong scattering of light as it passes though opaque biological tissue

Biofabrication is a world-leading specialist journal, publishing cutting-edge research regarding the use of cells, proteins, biological materials and biomaterials as building blocks to manufacture biological systems and/or therapeutic products.

Latest articles in biophysics and bioengineering

Experiment probes landmines’ effects on cells

Applying extremely high stresses to biological samples could help explain anomalous bone formation that affects blast survivors

For concussions, the eyes are windows to the brain

Measuring eye motion in real time could provide a way to diagnose traumatic brain injury due to sports-related head impacts

Close-up image showing the brown and blue scales on a butterfly's wing

Scientists identify gene responsible for butterfly’s dazzling structural colours

Advance will make it easier to study natural colour-determining nanostructures and could inspire more efficient ways of producing photonics devices

Atomic magnetometer measures cardiac conductivity

A 50-fold improvement in imaging sensitivity could enable non-invasive measurement of the heart’s passive electrical properties

Metasurface-based contact lens corrects colour blindness

New device incorporates nanosized gold ellipses and could help people who struggle to distinguish red from green

Innovative brain–machine interface set to improve prosthetics and brain research

A brain–machine interface that enables multi-channel recordings of neural activity could improve human prosthetics and enhance understanding of the brain

A man wearing a mask stands in front of a body of water with a city skyline in the distance.

Protective equipment against COVID-19 needs to go further, scientists say

Biophysics data on clouds of gas exhaled during coughs and sneezes could shape healthcare responses to the coronavirus pandemic

Machines sense and see in nanoseconds

Novel sensor array captures and computes optical signals at the same time, lowering delay caused by intermediate processing

Spiral patterns in living cells could be used to create biological computers

Vortices in starfish eggs resemble those found in quantum fluids

Physics in the pandemic: �?My workplace probably looks more like a war zone now’

Sam Vennin is impressed by the collaborations developing between research groups and predicts that research will emerge from the current situation deeply transformed

Physics in the pandemic: �?Scientists don’t live in a vacuum’

PhD student Lucy Rowlands is creating an ever-expanding list of experiments to do when she can return to the lab

Physicists unveil new simplified ventilator for COVID-19 patients

Dark matter researchers create device using off-the-shelf components

Ask me anything: Cather Simpson

The chief science officer of Engender Technologies gives her advice to physics graduates

Physics in the pandemic: �?Experiments might have stopped, but thinking won’t’

Experimental physicist Giampaolo Pitruzzello describes how he plans to make the most of his time without a laboratory

Thread-like defects in 3D active crystals get a closer look

Researchers use light-sheet microscopy to study the behaviour of liquid crystals made up of rod-shaped virus particles

Physics joins the fight against the coronavirus, philosophical differences of physics and chemistry, escape to an exotic exoplanet

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COVID-19: how physics is helping the fight against the pandemic

With the world in the grips of the COVID-19 pandemic, Jon Cartwright investigates how physics-based techniques are helping scientists study viruses, including this latest no...

Photo of the transceiver circuit next to a rolled-up version of the circuit inside a capsule

Millimetre-scale transceiver boosts ingestible sensors

Wireless receiver and transmitter is small enough to fit in a swallowable capsule for monitoring gut health

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