Biotechnology News Today

Random-seeming hand gestures seem to help people control prosthetic hands better than ones that mimic their ordinary muscle movements

A drug called pazopanib is known to provide brief relief from arthritis pain – encapsulating it in nanoparticles can make its effects last much longer, research in mice suggests

Researchers wanting to make use of locusts’ keen sense of smell to sniff out certain chemicals have found that injecting their brains with nanoparticles seems to make odour identification more reliable

Nanoparticles designed to release antibiotics deep inside the lungs reduced inflammation and improved lung function in mice with symptoms of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

A tiny, biohybrid robot moves by contracting lab-grown muscle tissue in its legs – but it needs help to stand up in a water tank and it tops out at just 5.4 millimetres per minute

A healthy rhesus monkey has been born after being cloned from fetal cells, but creating a clone of an adult human being would be much harder

A team aiming to produce the first complex cell with an entirely synthetic genome has created a strain of yeast with half of its chromosomes designed from scratch

Male chicks have no value to farmers who raise egg-laying chicken breeds, meaning that billions are slaughtered straight after hatching. Now, techniques to sex embryos inside eggs aim to end this practice

We can change the flavour and texture of foods like bread and rice wine by tweaking the genomes of the yeasts that are used to make them

A robot made of Lego can speed up and simplify building tiny structures out of DNA that could be used as biological machines