Biotech & pharma
Itch-causing molecule unmasked
29 May 2013
Scientists sequence genome of Norway spruce
23 May 2013
Cause of genetic disease discovered
23 May 2013
Probing the power of stem cells
By By Candace Pearson | 18 May 2013
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