Search results

Technologies 1

• Bioplastics
  Humans have produced roughly 8,300 million metric tons of plastic since the 1950s, the vast majority of which has been thrown out as waste. Only about 9% of that plastic waste has been recycled and 12% has been incinerated, leaving 79% of it to accumulate on our land and oceans, harming the environment, the food...

News 11

View all

• Press Release
  
  Implantable biosensors get a major longevity boost
  March 13, 2025
• Press Release
  
  Creating a blueprint for optimized ear tubes and other implantable fluid-transporting devices
  April 5, 2023
• Research Spotlights
  
  Don’t hate your guts – heal them
  February 10, 2020

Multimedia 3

• 

  Audio/Podcast
  Biofilms: Reprogramming Bacteria to Improve Lives
  Wyss Core Faculty member Neel Joshi and Postdoctoral Fellow Anna Duraj-Thatte discuss the intersection between synthetic biology and materials science as an underexplored area with great potential to positively affect our daily lives—applications ranging from manufacturing to medicine. Dr. Joshi outlines ways that his lab at the Wyss Institute is looking at reprogramming bacteria in...

• 

  Video/Animation
  BIND Biofilm
  In this video Wyss Institute Core Faculty member Neel Joshi and Postdoctoral Fellow Peter Nguyen describe how their protein engineering system called BIND (Biofilm-Integrated Nanofiber Display) could be used to redefine biofilms as large-scale production platforms for biomaterials that can be programmed to provide functions not possible with existing materials. An animation depicts how it...

• 

  Video/Animation
  New coating turns glass into superglass
  A transparent new coating makes ordinary glass tough, ultraslippery, and self-cleaning. The coating is based on SLIPS — the world’s slipperiest synthetic substance. Here, a droplet of dyed octane quickly beads up and rolls off a watch glass with the new coating. To learn more, go to Credit: Wyss Institute at Harvard University