Help CU Boulder Chemical and Biological Engineering students tackle a real-life industrial problem. The capstone Design Project course in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering is a one ...

The interdisciplinary nature of biological engineering, often referred to as bioengineering, leads to jobs in healthcare, business, education, and government. Biological engineering blends engineering ...

A team has compiled a roadmap for the future of synthetic or engineering biology, based on the input of 80 leaders in the field from more than 30 institutions. The report provides a strong case that ...

Biomedical engineers get to work on all sorts of projects. They might be designing new medical devices, like pacemakers or ...

Getting involved in research in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering has many benefits, including developing critical thinking and laboratory skills, gaining a deeper understanding of ...

Northwestern University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), recognized leaders in the growing field of synthetic biology, recently received significant grant awards from the Army for ...

Synthetic biology is an interdisciplinary field that combines principles from biology, engineering, and computer science to design and construct new biological systems or redesign existing ones. It ...

The ability of scientists to rationally engineer organisms using synthetic biology, or “engineering biology” as I prefer to call it, has progressed greatly since high throughput molecular biology ...

Above: Assistant Professor Orit Peleg at her apiary. Header image: A leaf sits on a circuit board. Several new faculty hires in CU Engineering take inspiration from nature when conducting research.

Scientific advances over the past several decades have accelerated the ability to engineer existing organisms and to potentially create novel ones not found in nature. This report explores and ...

The US military is brainstorming ways to build large structures in space, from telescope antennas to elevator tethers. By growing these objects in microgravity using biological organisms, they hope to ...