Viruses put to work making high-tech materials
Viruses subvert their hosts to pump out masses of new viruses. In an unusual twist, a researcher reports in the May 3 issue of Science...
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Researchers tailors cell jackets to inhibit cancer growth
MIT scientists wielding molecular scissors have shown for the first time that the sugar jackets of cancer cells can be tailored to inhibit tumors. The...
Researchers control biological materials with radio waves
It's not exactly "ET, phone home," but researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology report in the January 10 issue of Nature that they can...
Bioengineering programmes rise to meet the challenge of a young science
When biology met engineering, they created a new field for scientists who don't want to be hedged into one discipline. Scanning the c.v. of...
The Artificial Womb Is Born
The artificial womb exists. In Tokyo, researchers have developed a technique called EUFI -- extrauterine fetal incubation. They have taken goat fetuses, threaded catheters through...
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