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Megan Palmer, Executive Director, Bio Policy and Leadership Initiatives; Adjunct Professor, Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford University, USA speaking in the "Doubling Down on Science" session at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2023 in Davos-Klosters, Switzerland, 20 January. Congress Centre - Aspen 2 Room. Copyright: World Economic Forum/Jakob Polacsek
“You can’t grow organs outside of the body. DARPA was enamoured with the idea of headless humans a few years back, but we learned that you also need the nervous system for organ development.”
“At HLI we want to decode the brain at the genetic level.”
“We are trying to predict your exact face from your genetic code alone. But, it could be any phenotypic trait.”
“At SGI, we are engineering phage [viruses that kill bacteria] to target pseudomonas in burn therapy.”
More below, and here's the DARPA event agenda for their "Biology is Technology" gathering.
Two locations at UCSB: The Bioengineering building, and the steps near campus point leading down to the ocean. Taken with a Yashica Electro 35 GSN with expired Kodak Ektachrome and processed at Dwayne's.
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"My Lord, it seems we may have a way to replace your face, but you may have to put up with the embarrassment of visiting SaSa."
Human skin will soon be able to be manufactured quickly via 3D printing, but by the most unlikely company.
French cosmetics firm L'Oreal is working on the technology with bioengineering start-up Organovo, which claimed it can 3D print a human liver.
Experts questioned why a beauty firm would want to print skin. L'Oreal's statement explaining the advantage of printing skin also offered few clues. "Our partnership will not only bring about new advanced in vitro methods for evaluating product safety and performance, but the potential for where this new field of technology and research can take us is boundless," it said.
A modular design of bioengineered brain-like cortical tissues. The approach consisted of a modular design of silk protein-based porous scaffolds dyed with food color. Each layer was seeded with different primary rat cortical neurons.
Credit: National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, National Institutes of Health
Megan Palmer, Executive Director, Bio Policy and Leadership Initiatives; Adjunct Professor, Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford University, USA speaking in the Turning the Tide on Infectious Diseases and Cancer session at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2022 in Davos-Klosters, Switzerland, 25 May. Congress Centre - Forum Room. Copyright: World Economic Forum/Sikarin Fon Thanachaiary
The bioengineered planets of the Green Front use complex webs of plant life to create a living mass capable of coordinating defensive systems and and manufacturing processes.
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We've got some Resident Evil action going on as well as the oh so famous (in it's own right) Zombie Walk.
Taken during the Radio 92.9 EarthFest 2008 in Boston, MA
"Obedience breeds discipline, discipline breeds unity, unity breeds power, power is life."
Adult-like cardiac tissue engineered from human pluripotent stem cells contains transverse tubules, the hallmark of maturity, seen in immunofluorescent images. Researchers are now able to use induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSC) to form a model of human adult-like cardiac muscle by introducing electric and mechanical stimulation at an early stage. Since this muscle is similar to the adult heart, it could serve as a better model for testing the effects of drugs and toxic substances than current tissue-engineered heart models.
More information: www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/early-stimulation-i...
Credit: Columbia University
NIH support from: National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB)
Scientists at the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) have combined two different microscope technologies to create sharper images of rapidly moving processes inside a cell.
Learn more: www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/better-together-mer...
Credit: National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, NIH
Werner Baumann, Chairman of the Board of Management; Chief Executive Officer, Bayer, Germany, Gianrico Farrugia, President and Chief Executive Officer, Mayo Clinic, USA, Megan Palmer, Executive Director, Bio Policy and Leadership Initiatives; Adjunct Professor, Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford University, USA, Dimitri de Vreeze, Co-Chief Executive Officer and Member of the Managing Board, Royal DSM, Netherlands
, speaking in the The Biotech Revolution session at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2022 in Davos-Klosters, Switzerland, 25 May. Congress Centre - Exchange. Copyright: World Economic Forum/ Valeriano di Domenico
Ric Fulop, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder, Desktop Metal, USA – Jason Kelly, Chief Executive Officer, Ginkgo Bioworks, USA – Trish Malarkey, Chief Innovation Officer, Royal DSM, Netherlands – Trevor Martin, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder, Mammoth Biosciences, USA – Megan Palmer, Executive Director, Bio Policy and Leadership Initiatives; Adjunct Professor, Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford University, USA speaking in the Delivering Biomanufacturing's Full Potential session at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2022 in Davos-Klosters, Switzerland, 25 May. Congress Centre - Studio. World Economic Forum/Manuel Lopez
Appearence: Dark red hair, pointed ears, greenish blue eyes, tattoo of a feather on her left hip
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Abilities: Charlot can create and alter magnetic feilds. She can also change the polarization of magnetic fields and magnetize non metals
Charlot was one of five children born to Philip Collins and Natalie Lehnsherr. Her family life was fairly stable until her elder sister Osma began to exhibit mutant abilities. Her parents sent Osma to Xavier's school for the gifted and rarely spoke of her. Two years later, Charlot's abilities manifested. She was eleven. Her parents and younger siblings were killed the day she was to leave and her grandfather Eric arrived to take her in. Depsite having grown up with him, Charlot has never adopted his hatred of non-mutants. She's content to live among them. As she grew, Eric realized that she was growing in power and that her power would exceed his. He ordered Mystique to kill her. But Charlot overheard them and fled. She spent a year at the Xavier school before graduating and attending Brown University. Graduating at the top of her class, with a degree in Bioengineering, She was offered a job at Candlewick Academy. She continues to work on getting her Master's degree.
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Megan Palmer, Executive Director, Bio Policy and Leadership Initiatives; Adjunct Professor, Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford University, USA speaking in the "Doubling Down on Science" session at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2023 in Davos-Klosters, Switzerland, 20 January. Congress Centre - Aspen 2 Room. Copyright: World Economic Forum/Jakob Polacsek
iss073e0817663 (Oct. 1, 2025) --- NASA astronaut and Expedition 73 Flight Engineer Jonny Kim shows off production bags containing bioengineered yeasts and probiotic cultures for the BioNutrients-3 investigation aboard the International Space Station's Destiny laboratory module. The biotechnology investigation seeks to produce on-demand vitamins and nutrients using bioengineered yeast and bacteria to maintain crew health during long-term space missions farther away from Earth.
Megan Palmer, Executive Director, Bio Policy and Leadership Initiatives; Adjunct Professor, Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford University, USA speaking in the Turning the Tide on Infectious Diseases and Cancer session at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2022 in Davos-Klosters, Switzerland, 25 May. Congress Centre - Forum Room. Copyright: World Economic Forum/Sikarin Fon Thanachaiary
Megan Palmer, Executive Director, Bio Policy and Leadership Initiatives; Adjunct Professor, Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford University, USA speaking in the Turning the Tide on Infectious Diseases and Cancer session at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2022 in Davos-Klosters, Switzerland, 25 May. Congress Centre - Forum Room. Copyright: World Economic Forum/Sikarin Fon Thanachaiary
Megan Palmer, Executive Director, Bio Policy and Leadership Initiatives; Adjunct Professor, Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford University, USA, Rania A. Al-Mashat, Minister of International Cooperation of Egypt, Michelle Longmire, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Medable, USA, Nita Madhav, Chief Executive Officer, Metabiota, USA and Umra Omar, Founder and Executive Director, Safari Doctors, Kenya in the Turning the Tide on Infectious Diseases and Cancer session at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2022 in Davos-Klosters, Switzerland, 25 May. Congress Centre - Forum Room. Copyright: World Economic Forum/Sikarin Fon Thanachaiary
This image is a nanovesicle assembled from individual gold nanorods. The beard has a polymer coating on the surface of the vesicle.
Credit: Shawn Chen, National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, National Institutes of Health
Kelly Benoit-Bird
Associate Professor, College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences at Oregon State University
Kelly Benoit-Bird applies acoustics to the study of ecosystems in the open ocean. She has helped develop several new optical and acoustical instruments and has made fundamental acoustical measurements of species ranging from zooplankton to fish, squid, and marine mammals. Benoit-Bird has been named a MacArthur Fellow, has received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, and has published in Nature, Marine Biology and the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. Through her research into how predators target their prey, Benoit-Bird is creating a new understanding of key ecological processes in the ocean.
Flaminia Catteruccia
Associate Professor of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard School of Public Health
Flaminia Catteruccia is a molecular entomologist specializing in the reproductive biology of Anopheles mosquitoes, the only mosquitoes capable of transmitting human malaria. Searching for a more effective way to reduce the incidence of malaria, Catteruccia is exploring how disruptions to the mosquito mating process could cause them not to successfully reproduce. Her work has received funding from the Wellcome Trust and has appeared in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Biotechnology and Malaria Journal. Her focus on the reproductive biology of mosquitoes seeks keys to fighting a disease that still affects hundreds of millions of people around the world.
Sriram Kosuri
Postdoctoral Fellow, Wyss Institute and Harvard Medical School
Sriram Kosuri is developing next-generation DNA synthesis technologies for use in bioengineering. Prior to his work at the Wyss Institute, Kosuri was the first employee at Joule Unlimited, a biofuel startup company working to develop fuels from sunlight using engineered microbes; and co-founded OpenWetWare, a website designed to share information in the biological sciences. He has authored several patents and patent applications related to both biofuels and DNA synthesis technologies, and has published in journals such as Nature Biotechnology and Molecular Systems Biology. The potential applications of the engineered biological products Kosuri is working on span realms from medicine to environment to energy and materials.
Thaddeus Pace
Assistant Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Emory University School of Medicine
Thaddeus Pace explores endocrine and immune system changes in people who suffer from stress-related psychiatric illness or who have had adverse early life experiences. His investigations have highlighted the potential of compassion meditation and other complementary practices to help individuals exposed to trauma, including patients with PTSD and children in state foster care programs. Pace’s work has been funded by the National Institute of Mental Health and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, and has appeared in Neuroscience, The American Journal of Psychiatry and International Immunopharmacology. His research aims to contribute new approaches to the long-term health and well-being of children and adults in challenging circumstances.
David Rand
Assistant Professor, Psychology Department, Yale University
David Rand focuses on the evolution of human behavior, with a particular emphasis on cooperation, generosity and altruism. His approach combines empirical observations from behavioral experiments with predictions generated by evolutionary game theoretic math models and computer simulations. Rand has been named to Wired magazine’s Smart List 2012 of “50 people who will change the world” as well as the AAAS/Science Program for Excellence in Science, and his work has been featured on the front covers of both Nature and Science and reported widely in the media. Rand seeks answers to why people are willing to help others at a cost to themselves, and what can be done to help solve social dilemmas when they arise.
Giuseppe Raviola
Director of Mental Health at Partners In Health, Director of the Program in Mental Health and Social Change at Harvard Medical School, and Medical Director of Patient Safety and Quality at Children's Hospital Boston
Giuseppe “Bepi” Raviola works to more fully integrate mental health services into global health care efforts. Through research, clinical practice and training in places ranging from Haiti to Rwanda, Raviola is building teams and bridging disciplines to address this critical and previously neglected issue. His ideas and findings have appeared in The Lancet, the Harvard Review of Psychiatry and the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. Raviola’s work on behalf of local mental health team leaders aims to build lasting, community-based systems of mental health care.
John Rinn
Assistant Professor of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology at Harvard University and Medical School and Senior Associate Member of the Broad Institute
John Rinn takes an unconventional approach to the way biologists think about the human genome. Focusing on large intervening non-coding RNAs (lincRNAs), his work suggests that so-called “junk genes” may actually play a key regulatory role in cell function. Rinn’s finding have been published in Nature, Science and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and he has been named to Popular Science’s “Brilliant 10.” By identifying thousands of new RNA genes in the human genome, he is working toward a better understanding of their importance for human health and disease.
Leila Takayama
Research Scientist, Willow Garage
Leila Takayama studies how people perceive, understand, feel about and interact with robots. What can robots do? Better yet, what should they do, and how? Takayama has been collaborating with character animators, sound designers, and product designers to work toward making both the appearance and behaviors of robots more human-readable, approachable, and appealing. Her findings have appeared in the International Journal of Design, Neural Networks and IEEE Pervasive Computing. Through her research, Takayama is leading the way toward robots that serve their purposes more effectively and intuitively.
Tiffani Williams
Associate Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, Texas A&M University
Tiffani Williams explores new ways to use computation in helping to reconstruct the phylogenetic ways that all organisms are connected. A specialist in bioinformatics and high-performance computing, she is working with a multidisciplinary team to build the Open Tree of Life, showing the previously established links among species and providing tools for scientists to update and revise the tree as new data come in. She has been a Radcliffe Institute Fellow, has been funded by the National Science Foundation, and has published in Science, Evolutionary Bioinformatics and the Journal of Computational Biology. By helping identify how species are related to each other, Williams is providing a framework for new understanding in realms such as ecological health, environmental change, and human disease.
Benjamin Zaitchik
Assistant Professor, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Johns Hopkins University
Benjamin Zaitchik’s research is directed at understanding, managing, and coping with climatic and hydrologic variability. He looks for new approaches to controlling human influences on climate and water resources at local, regional and global scales, and explores improved forecast systems and methods of risk assessment. His work has received funding from NASA, the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation, and appeared in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health and Water Resources Research, among others. Zaitchik is interested in helping provide new insights in such crucial areas as transboundary water management, climate-informed disease early warning systems, and adaptation strategies in subsistence agricultural communities.
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For years this character was named Overman but 12 years ago I found out the name was owned by DC. Inspired from King Shaka of the Zulu, not the NastyC's sophomore album Zulu Man. Nor his design was inspired by Zulu man in Japan (A recent google check)
The bioengineered 24th Century hero's powers are Damage Conversion in which Tactile damage is converted to improve one of his physical attributes. This "Clashmates" character has TRUE FLIGHT ability. His powers are so strong he was blind from birth and uses a Spiderman-like Danger Sense to sense threats to his body.
He can sacrifice his Danger Sense to detect dangers for others but leave himself vulnerable. He could describe the mixing of Superman (without the vision/breath powers) and Daredevil.
He was trained in Martial Arts by "Sifu" Qi, allowing him to sense people through "Chi" but leaves Zulue vulnerable to Non-living inorganic enemies.
Meaning he isn't as powerful as he NEEDS to be unlike a certain superhero.
After reaching middle age, he is murdered, and years later his 10th generation great-grandson takes up the name with the suffix X.
The first Zulue Man is wished back to life and goes under the name Be lined for the GalaxyStar Defenders.
the Birth of the U.S Prosthetics Industry
Although designers were producing artificial body parts as early as the 1500s, the field did not advance significantly until the spike in demand in the 1860s. The key drivers of progress: deadlier bullets and government money.
Then as now, advances in weaponry fueled advances in medical technology. The introduction of the Minié (or Minnie) ball, one of the first practical rifle bullets, was a transformative event in the history of prosthetics. The Minié was made of soft lead with a hollow base that expanded when fired. Upon impact, the bullet caused large, irregular, and slow-healing wounds.
Most physicians of the era were woefully inexperienced in surgery, and were no match for the devastating injuries that these powerful new weapons inflicted. With some 70% of Civil War wounds affecting the limbs, amputation quickly became the treatment of choice in battlefield surgery. A primary amputation was easier, faster, and–with a mortality rate of "only" 28%–safer than other treatment options. More than 30,000 Union soldiers and 40,000 Confederate soldiers lost limbs between 1861 and 1865.
Recognizing the alarming number of amputations resulting from combat, the U.S. government unveiled the "Great Civil War Benefaction," a commitment to provide prosthetics to all disabled veterans.
With the lure of government support, entrepreneurs began competing for a share of the growing prosthetics market. This new "arms race" was characterized by far-fetched advertising claims about the comfort and utility of the latest artificial limb.
In fact, few available devices were comfortable and most veterans found crutches to be a better alternative, he said.
Wood and steel were the materials of choice for replacement limbs until about 1863, with the introduction of the cosmetic rubber hand. Rubber offered an attractive alternative to rigid materials in terms of its resiliency, flexibility, and somewhat more natural appearance. Early models featured fingers that could move under pressure, with enough lifelike action to hold small objects like a fork or pencil. For added utility, some models allowed the wearer to remove the cosmetic appendage from the forearm harness and replace it, Swiss Army knife-style, with various hooks, brushes, sawing attachments, or other accessories.
Pranjal Sharma, Contributing Editor, Businessworld, India
Nita A. Farahany, Robinson O. Everett Professor of Law and Philosophy; Director, Duke Science and Society, Duke University, USA
Megan Palmer, Executive Director, Bio Policy and Leadership Initiatives; Adjunct Professor, Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford University, USA
Kuldeep Singh Rajput, Chief Executive Officer, Biofourmis, USA, are speaking in the Transforming Medicine, Redefining Life session at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2023 in Davos-Klosters, Switzerland, 20 January. Congress Centre - Salon. Copyright: World Economic Forum/Mattias Nutt
Megan Palmer, Executive Director, Bio Policy and Leadership Initiatives; Adjunct Professor, Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford University, USA, speaking in the The Biotech Revolution session at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2022 in Davos-Klosters, Switzerland, 25 May. Congress Centre - Exchange. Copyright: World Economic Forum/ Valeriano di Domenico
Pranjal Sharma, Contributing Editor, Businessworld, India
Nita A. Farahany, Robinson O. Everett Professor of Law and Philosophy; Director, Duke Science and Society, Duke University, USA
Megan Palmer, Executive Director, Bio Policy and Leadership Initiatives; Adjunct Professor, Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford University, USA
Kuldeep Singh Rajput, Chief Executive Officer, Biofourmis, USA, are speaking in the Transforming Medicine, Redefining Life session at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2023 in Davos-Klosters, Switzerland, 20 January. Congress Centre - Salon. Copyright: World Economic Forum/Mattias Nutt
All shiny and new in the Stanford Y2E2 building today.
I had to take a photo when I saw the placards:
• Laboratory for Total RNA Dominance
• Short Term DNA Memory Leaks Lab
The palpable excitement around the new programs reminds me of an informal survey I did of Engineering Deans two years ago. Bioengineering is the fastest growing area in undergraduate engineering at Duke, and literally off the chart for Stanford's grad student applicant tracking system. UT Austin's bioengineering program filled up and they are trying to sell students on EE instead. Berkeley told me they saw a doubling of biomedical engineering enrollment. I also found a survey of freshmen on their intended majors; Bio beats Computer Science and all other engineering fields.
Update: in 2012, he published some astounding results from this work, having created a digital memory element in DNA. More precisely, it’s an SR Latch, and they are now building a byte-wide register.
Why would researchers want to do this? This could be used to count cell divisions to trace the embryonic development of an organism cell-by-cell. Or more radically, imagine if every cell has a unique ID, clocking at each cell division. Consider the brain. Imagine if that code could express a coded RNA that would migrate to the synapse, where it could bundle with other RNA from connecting neurons. In one destructive readout, you could shotgun sequence all of those RNA bundles and derive the full connectome of the brain in one step.
Here is the preprint of their PNAS paper.
Hi friends! I'm currently developing my thesis in bioengineering and it's about the designing and implementation of a fluorometer that allows to measure chlorophyll fluorescence, to estimate plant's physiologic parameters, such as hydric stress, photosynthesis rate and others. It has applications in botanical investigations, but it's also used in others fields, like agriculture, for instance determinate the best moment for fertilizing. So, my question is: can you think about an application of this tecnology in your cultures? If I offer you an equipment that can determine hydric stress, photosynthesis rate or others physiologic plants parameters, would you use that in your plants?
THANKS YOU SO MUCH!!
Jonathan
iss073e0818445 (Oct. 2, 2025) --- JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut and Expedition 73 Flight Engineer Kimiya Yui shows off production bags containing bioengineered yeasts and probiotic cultures for the BioNutrients-3 investigation. Yui conducted passaging and straw tests to demonstrate how astronauts could grow and safely consume fresh vitamins and nutrients on demand helping researchers plan future missions farther from Earth.
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These bracken are producing more leaves which unfurl and open in this incredibly alien way. Aside from the beautiful fractal geometry, they are simply stunning pieces of bioengineering. I just feel drawn to them and their beauty. Sorry if this is a bit like a previous one, but I can't help photographing them!
iss073e0865425 (Oct. 7, 2025) --- NASA astronaut and Expedition 73 Flight Engineer Mike Fincke performs research operations for the BioNugtrients-2 investigation at the maintenance work area inside the International Space Station's Harmony module. The biotechnology investigation seeks to produce on-demand vitamins and nutrients using bioengineered yeast and bacteria to maintain crew health during long-term space missions farther away from Earth.
iss073e0817658 (Oct. 1, 2025) --- NASA astronaut and Expedition 73 Flight Engineer Jonny Kim works at the maintenance work area inside the International Space Station's Harmony module hydrating, agitating, and preparing production bags containing bioengineered yeasts and probiotic cultures for incubation. These activities are designed to demonstrate how astronauts could grow and safely consume fresh vitamins and nutrients on demand helping researchers plan future missions farther from Earth.
Sandia National Laboratories researchers George Bachand and Wally Paxton at a confocal microscope illuminating the first biomolecular machines to assemble complex polymer structures.
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Photo by Randy Montoya.
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