Media Coverage

Nature
Scientists at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University in Boston, Massachusetts, have created one of the most sophisticated devices so far: a lung on a chip that represents several types of tissue...

Times Live
A good idea is one that will excite and make a difference. This one, inspired by a biological cell, is a high-design, circular, malleable water bag which could soon lighten the load for water carriers in rural areas. Le Pumpkin is practical, efficient and potentially stylish and solves the problems associated with filtering water...

New York Times
Bioengineer Jeff Way has seen what happens when the claims of algae biofuel companies get ahead of the science, when their promises of "renewable diesel" slam into the realities of engineering...

Harvard Crimson
Most people take the world’s natural beauty for granted. But L. Mahadevan uses it as inspiration to guide research in his lab at Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences...

R&D Magazine
When it comes to the science of how the curved petals burst from the bud of a lily, little is known. Now, however, mathematics reveals that differential growth and ruffling at the edges of each petal provide the driving force behind the lily's bloom...

Richmond Times-Dispatch
George M. Church's daughter once quipped that things just seem to work out for her father, the soft-spoken Harvard scientist who chronicles the genetic blueprints that ensure that our lives — as biological events — aren't a seeming series of spontaneous, disconnected moments...

CityBiz
With its sights set on expansion, the Hansjorg Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University has inked a 10-year lease for an additional 31,500 square feet of laboratory and office space at the 704,000-square-foot Center for Life Science|Boston.

CNBC
BioMed Realty Trust, Inc. announced today the signing of a new ten-year lease at the Center for Life Science | Boston with Harvard University, providing new expansion space for the Hansjorg Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University...

Live Science
James Collins is one of the founders of synthetic biology, as well as a pioneering researcher in systems biology...

Ask Nature
Researchers at the Wyss Institute have developed a system for replicating complex, 3-dimensional tissues in the human body using circuitry combined with living cells. These proxy-organs will facilitate rapid, sophisticated testing without the need for animal or human subjects...