Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering

The Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering is a cross-disciplinary research institute at Harvard University which focuses on developing new bioinspired materials and devices for applications in healthcare, manufacturing, robotics, energy, and sustainable architecture.

Riddle solved: The key to designing concrete that lasts for millennia

A new type of RNA can inhibit a broad range of viral infections

Is this the way to build a cure for heart attacks?

Wearable sweat diagnostics: Real-time continuous monitoring is possible for things like COVID-19 and influenza

Significantly speeding up the pace and quality of vaccine creation with a microfluidic Organ Chip – No Animal Testing

Regrowing a functional almost complete limb for the very first time – in a frog

Building the first living robots that can reproduce

A robotic exosuit that can be calibrated to an individual and adapt to a variety of real-world walking tasks in a matter of seconds

A new vaccine technology could ward off a broad range of bacterial infections and septic shock

Diagnosing COVID-19 using a face mask with a wearable biosensor

Robotic fish swarms swim together without outside coordination

Using red blood cells to generate targeted immune responses for better vaccines – in mice

Human-on-body chip systems can enhance drug testing

Fast on-demand multi-material multi-nozzle 3D printing in a fraction of the time

Multinozzle printer can switch between multiple inks up to 50 times per second 3D printers are revolutionizing manufacturing by allowing users to create any physical shape they can imagine on-demand. However, most commercial printers are only able to build objects from a single material at a time and inkjet printers that are capable of multimaterial

Fast on-demand multi-material multi-nozzle 3D printing in a fraction of the time

First flying microrobot with soft actuators

First flight of a microrobot with soft actuators The sight of a RoboBee careening towards a wall or crashing into a glass box may have once triggered panic in the researchers in the Harvard Microrobotics Laboratory at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS), but no more. Researchers at SEAS and the Wyss Institute for

First flying microrobot with soft actuators

3D-printed organs gain a major building block process with SWIFT

Sacrificial ink-writing technique allows 3D printing of large, vascularized human organ building blocks 20 people die every day waiting for an organ transplant in the United States, and while more than 30,000 transplants are now performed annually, there are over 113,000 patients currently on organ waitlists. Artificially grown human organs are seen by many as

3D-printed organs gain a major building block process with SWIFT

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DART VADAR harnesses the force of enzymes for better RNA drugs
Gene therapy has been heralded as the new frontier of medicine, but there are still many limitations to current technologies; among them, how to deliver therapeutic genes to specific cells, and only ...
DART VADAR harnesses the force of enzymes for better RNA drugs
This work was supported by NIH grants R01EB024591 and 5RC2DK120535-03, and the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering. Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard.
Designing more useful bacteria
In a step forward for genetic engineering and synthetic biology, researchers have modified E. coli bacteria to be immune to infection by all natural viruses tested so far • The team also employed two ...
Researchers create virus-resistant, safely restrained E. coli for medical, industrial applications
In a step forward for genetic engineering and synthetic biology, researchers have modified a strain of Escherichia coli bacteria to be immune to natural viral infections while also minimizing the ...
Bio-inspired Material Can Follow the Sun
Key to the research of scientists at Harvard’s Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering and John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences are magnetic fields, which they used ...

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DART VADAR harnesses the force of enzymes for better RNA drugs
This work was supported by NIH grants R01EB024591 and 5RC2DK120535-03, and the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering. Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard.
Bio-inspired Material Can Follow the Sun
Key to the research of scientists at Harvard’s Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering and John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences are magnetic fields, which they used ...
From Limbo To CEO: An Immigrant’s Journey In 3D Bioprinting
For one bioprinting technology company, getting the CEO through the green card maze during the pandemic was the first step toward helping pharmaceutical companies discover and develop new drugs at ...
Wyss Institute
The Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University is known for its Flying Winged Micro Air Vehicles or FWMAV. Which is a pretty good example of what happens when you ...
Fully Human Ovarian Organoid That Supports Egg Cell Maturation Created by Laboratory Researchers
Scientists at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University, Harvard Medical School (HMS), and Duke University, in collaboration with Gameto, report that they have ...