All you skiers and boarders, rejoice! Investigators from the Orthopedic Bioengineering Laboratory at Duke University created a 3D scaffold that one day might be impregnated with your own stem cells, in order to create new functional cartilage: Using a unique weaving machine of their design, Duke University Medical Center researchers have created a three-dimensional fabric […]

–Amin S. Ghabrial, PhD, Assistant Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology Department: Cell and Developmental Biology Tubes of different sizes, shapes and cellular architectures compose most organs and glands. How these tubes are formed and what factors regulate their dimensions and their pattern of branching, are among the primary questions that must be addressed before […]

-Imagine, if you will, bioluminescent landscapes replacing our current technology of street lamps, business signs, etc. Not only is there the potential for a great reduction in energy costs and production, but the beautiful landscapes which could be created as a result of this change. To understand these creatures and the evolution that has created […]

Janine Benyus delves further into the design work inspired by biology, and through the creation of AskNature.org is helping to disseminate biomimetically inspired information online (click on the top image for a link to AskNature.org).

-Amsterdam-based photographer Cassander Eeftinck Schattenkerk has created a series titled The Andromeda Strain that focuses more on the notion of discovery than the place itself. The images conjure up thoughts of a space or time perhaps untouched or undiscovered by humans. These constructed images, with no Photoshop, of everyday objects refer to biological, scientific, or […]

The Sociable Weaver or Social Weaver (Philetairus socius) is a species of bird in the Ploceidae family. It is monotypic within the genus Philetairus. It is found in Botswana, Namibia, and South Africa.

-article via fractal ontology. Process In Mechanism and Biological Explanation [Maturana 1970], Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela argue that machines and biological forms are very closely related — so closely, in fact, that biologists can reasonably claim living systems are machines. This is not meant merely as a pedagogical metaphor, but rather as a rigorous […]

Scanning electron micrograph of E. coli bacteria. A rapidly growing colony can be programmed to act as a hugely powerful parallel computer. Photograph: Getty Computers are evolving – literally. While the tech world argues netbooks vs notebooks, synthetic biologists are leaving traditional computers behind altogether. A team of US scientists have engineered bacteria that could […]

Biophilia : Technophilia Projects noted as visionary within the architectural realm are all explicitly linked to the machine and the technologies that embody it, whether they are conceptual, mechanized constructions, virtual ones, or the cabbalistic. The use of technology in architecture fully embodies the architypes of the time and visionary architects’ pursuing projects of representation […]