Biotech & pharma
Bioengineers develop tool for reprogramming genetic code
31 Jan 2015
By selectively manipulating how DNA issues biological commands, Stanford bioengineers have developed a tool that could prove useful in future gene therapies
New analysis explains collagen’s force
By By David L. Chandler | MIT News Office | 27 Jan 2015
Brain’s on-off thirst switch identified
27 Jan 2015
Chemists find a way to unboil eggs
26 Jan 2015
New way to model sickle cell behaviour
By By Anne Trafton, MIT News Office | 24 Jan 2015
New device allows scientists to glimpse communication between immune cells
By By Anne Trafton | MIT News Office | 16 Jan 2015
UK farmer forced to butcher aggressive ‘Nazi’ cows
06 Jan 2015
Nazi scientists had actually managed to breed a herd of genetically-engineered cows which have turned out to be so aggressive that a UK farmer has been forced to chop up half his stock into meat as they they repeatedly tried to kill his staff