Hacker News with Generative AI: Bioengineering

Lignin discovery could help turn trees into affordable green chemicals (phys.org)
Trees are the most abundant natural resource living on Earth's land masses, and North Carolina State University scientists and engineers are making headway in finding ways to use them as sustainable, environmentally benign alternatives to producing industrial chemicals from petroleum.
Robot controlled by a king oyster mushroom blends living organisms and machines (cnn.com)
Smart mask for exhaled breath condensate harvesting and analysis (science.org)
'smart' insulin that responds to changing blood sugar levels in real time (theguardian.com)
Maglev titanium heart now whirs inside the chest of a live patient (newatlas.com)
Heart transplant breakthrough as human receives titanium heart for first time (the-express.com)
Maglev titanium heart inside the chest of a live patient (newatlas.com)
Bridge RNAs direct programmable recombination of target and donor DNA (nature.com)
An ingestible device to record gastric electrophysiological activity (medicalxpress.com)
Mouth-based touchpad enables people living with paralysis to use computers (news.mit.edu)
Their bionic eyes are now obsolete and unsupported (2022) (ieee.org)
Motile Living Biobots Self-Construct from Human Somatic Progenitor Seed Cells (wiley.com)
MIT scientists learn how to control muscles with light (news.mit.edu)