A brand-new engineering approach to generate "designer" biological robots using human lung cells is underway in Carnegie ...

What if, instead of trying to fix different gene mutations for different people, one could simply replace the entire mutated ...

Carnegie Mellon scientists create AggreBots, tiny lung-cell robots powered by cilia with controlled motility.Word excerpt: ...

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When María Branyas Morera passed away in August 2024, she was 117 years and 168 days old, the planet’s oldest person living at the time. Her life was not only making news—it offered scientists a ...

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How humans move is an open question, according to Mark Latash, distinguished professor of kinesiology at Penn State.

Nearly every cell in your body depends on mitochondria to survive and function properly. Mitochondria provide 90% of our ...

Microscale biological robots made from human lung cells are advancing in Carnegie Mellon's Ren lab, with new research showing ...

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