BioDiscovery is an international, open access, online, peer-reviewed journal for the communication of primary research from any scientific discipline in the field of life sciences and medicine. BioDiscovery provides a platform for scientists in all areas of biology and medicine to promote, share and discuss new ideas and developments. The journal […]

The Bioinspired Robotics and Design Lab is a part of the Contextual Robotics Institute at the University of California, San Diego. Their research focuses on borrowing inspiration from nature to design automated systems with lifelike capabilities. For example, inspired by creatures like the […]

The Biomimicry Institute was founded in 2006 by Janine Benyus and Bryony Schwan to share nature’s design lessons with the people who design and make our world. We began by working directly with educators from K-12, university, and non-formal (museums, zoos, aquariums) environments to naturalize biomimicry in the educational system, and […]

Throughout the world, harbors, ports, and coastlines are constructed in ways that disrupts local coastal ecosystems and reduces biodiversity. Shimrit Perkol-Finkel created a start-up company in Israel that makes sustainable concrete blocks that mimics and is designed based off of marine life and promotes the growth of sea life in order […]

At the Wyss Institute, we leverage recent insights into how Nature builds, controls and manufactures to develop new engineering innovations – a new field of research we call Biologically Inspired Engineering. By emulating biological principles of self assembly, organization and regulation, we are developing disruptive technology solutions for healthcare, energy, architecture, […]

The BioInspiration Hallmark Research Initiative at the University of Melbourne is an initiative that engages and forms partnerships between different academic disciplines and industry to create real-world solutions inspired by nature. Researchers at the University of Melbourne’s Faculty of Sciences (BioSciences, Chemistry, and […]

The Caltech Center for Bioinspired Engineering develops new approaches to pressing technological challenges in energy, defense, and biomedicine by exploiting engineering solutions found in nature. The Center is organized into concurrent research programs that bring together faculty, staff and students from Aerospace, Bioengineering, Biology, Chemistry, Computing and Mathematical Sciences, and Mechanical […]

At Stanford Biodesign, we bring the world’s most promising minds into our circle to investigate, inspire, and innovate a healthier world for all. We offer a portfolio of educational programs to engage both aspiring and experienced innovators in the important challenge of reinventing health care with the help of technology. Each […]

Exploration was established in 2007 by Michael Pawlyn after ten years working at Grimshaw on The Eden Project and other high-profile projects. We focus on regenerative design approaches that go beyond conventional sustainable design. Whereas sustainability has too often involved simply mitigating negatives, regenerative design implies a much more positive approach […]

PatternFoxSM specializes in helping corporate design and research teams successfully adopt biologically inspired design. With more than a decade of experience with biologically inspired design, we offer clients: • A team with vast biological knowledge and insight, anchored by Prof. Jeannette Yen and Prof. Marc Weissburg. • Access to a network […]

Euro Biomaterials 2020 is a great platform for building a gap between academia and industry through innovative decisions in research methods in biomaterial science. Currently biomaterials are facing so many challenges in the field of medicine. To overcome this challenge, Euro Biomaterials 2020 allows delegates and students […]

Our research focuses on borrowing inspiration from nature to design automated systems with lifelike capabilities. For example, inspired by creatures like the starfish, we are designing soft robots composed of compliant materials. Likewise, inspired by fabrication in nature, from the small scale (proteins) to the large scale […]