Biotech & pharma
Researchers transform biological cells into living calculators.
By Anne Trafton, MIT News Office | 16 May 2013
Using analog computation circuits, MIT engineers have transformed bacterial cells into living calculators that can compute logarithms, divide, and take square roots, using three or fewer genetic parts
Non-inherited mutations account for many heart defects
By By Bill Hathaway | 14 May 2013
UK researchers develop new `superwheat’
13 May 2013
The development of the new wheat that gives 30 per cent more yield did not involve any genetic modification, according to the scientists
Controlled cellular sabotage
08 May 2013
Decoded: molecular messages that tell prostate, breast cancers to spread
03 May 2013
For the first time scientists have decoded the molecular chatter that ramps certain cancer cells into overdrive and can cause tumours to spread throughout the body
Biologists produce rainbow-coloured algae
02 May 2013
Secrets of bacterial slime revealed
30 Apr 2013
Fingerprinting malaria parasite drug resistance
29 Apr 2013
A different view of cancer cells
By Anne Trafton, MIT News Office | 27 Apr 2013
A new study measures physical changes in tumor cells as they become metastatic and break free from the original cancer site and spread throughout the body causing death among cancer patients
Boosting the powers of genomic science
By Scott LaFee | 26 Apr 2013
Random walks on DNA
23 Apr 2013
Genetics defines a distinct liver disease
22 Apr 2013
Nanoscopic cages for big applications
20 Apr 2013
3D printer can build synthetic tissues
20 Apr 2013
A custom-built programmable 3D printer can create materials with several of the properties of living tissues, Oxford University scientists have demonstrated.
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