Bioengineering Banter #1
Squishy robot? Yes, please! Dubbed "octobot" by Harvard scientists Robert Wood, Ph.D., and Jennifer Lewis, Sc.D who invented it, this squishy autonomous robot is completely composed of soft materials. While previous efforts have made robots with soft external features, this is the first robot to have its control system and power source untethered by cables and composed of a chemical fuel (aqueous solution of hydrogen peroxide!)-mediated fluidic circuit housed within silicone
Microbes Monthly - September
Right under our nose! With an increasing amount of bacterial strains developing antibiotic resistance and the development of new antibiotics having been few and far in between, any news of a promising new antibiotic is news worthy! The latest antibiotic was found right under (or in) our noses! A new report published this summer describes the discovery of a new antibiotic found in a nasal commensal bacterial species called Staphylococcus lugdunensis. The chemical antibiotic c
