A new project from MIT and DARPA has demonstrated the ability to synthesize multiple medications on-demand and as-needed using yeast. The discovery could revolutionize our ability to deliver medications after natural disasters or to remote locations.
DARPA and Lockheed Martin have a plan to build microfluidic cooling into modern microprocessors. This could dramatically improve CPU cooling and break the bottleneck on clock speed scaling — at least, for a little while.
The holy grail for treating “liquid tumors,” or cancers comprised of circulating blood cells, is to fish them out with some sort of microfluidic sieve. A new device developed by MIT and Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Cambridge, Massachusetts uses short segments of DNA attached to long “jellyfish” tentacles to snare rogue lymphoblast cells.
A bioengineer and geneticist at Harvard’s Wyss Institute have successfully stored 5.5 petabits of data — around 700 terabytes — in a single gram of DNA, smashing the previous DNA data density record by a thousand times.
Engineers at UCLA, led by Bahram Jalali and Dino Di Carlo, have developed a camera that can take 36.7 million frames per second, with a shutter speed of 27 picoseconds — by far the fastest and most sensitive camera in the world.
If a team of Harvard bioengineers has its way, animal testing and experimentation could soon be replaced by organ-on-a-chip technologies that replicate the functions of a human organ on a computer chip.
Genetically engineering e. coli bacteria to do cool things is the latest craze in the science world. With advancements in genetics and microbiology, the stuff of science fiction is fast becoming a reality. Biologists and bioengineers at UC San Diego have proven this with the creation of a living neon sign made of e. coli bacteria that will glow based on triggered reactions, completely in unison.
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