Using their novel FRESH 3D bioprinting technique, which allows for printing of soft living cells and tissues, Carnegie Mellon’s Feinberg lab has built a first-of-its-kind tissue model entirely out of collagen.

Inspired by the movements of a tiny parasitic worm, Georgia Tech engineers have created a 5-inch soft robot that can jump as high as a basketball hoop. Their device, a silicone rod with a carbon-fiber spine, can leap 10 feet high even though it doesn’t have legs. The researchers made it after watching high-speed video of nematodes pinching themselves into odd shapes to fling themselves forward and backward

UC Berkeley scientists have created a new platform called “Oz” that uses laser light to control up to 1,000 photoreceptors in the eye at once. Using Oz, the researchers showed people images, videos and a new, ultra-saturated shade of green that they have named “olo.” The platform could be used to probe the nature of color vision and provide new insight into human sight and vision loss.