77 Mass Ave Controlling cholera with microbes Engineered bacteria can prevent, diagnose, and treat infections. by Anne Trafton 2018-08-22T00:00:00-04:00
Rewriting Life Gulp. These Volunteers Are Swallowing E. Coli Pills to Help Medicine Biologists are genetically modifying the DNA of stomach bacteria so they act like living drugs. by Antonio Regalado 2017-09-26T13:40:00-04:00
Intelligent Machines How Much Force Do Bacteria Produce? It’s Now Been Measured The results suggest that bacteria could one day be harnessed as micrometer-sized machines. by Emerging Technology from the arXiv 2017-01-11T06:23:00-05:00
Connectivity The Fridge Laser That Detects Bacteria Crawling All Over Food Spotting the bacteria that causes food poisoning has always been a time-consuming and expensive business. Until now. by Emerging Technology from the arXiv 2016-03-29T10:23:00-04:00
Sustainable Energy The Ideal Fuel A nanomaterials chemist has figured out a good way to mimic leaves and turn water and carbon dioxide into things we need. by Katherine Bourzac 2015-12-22T00:05:00-05:00
Rewriting Life Now You Can Genetically Engineer Living Cells with a Home Kit. Should You? A new kit called Amino promises home-brew bioengineering for less than the price of a MacBook. by Kenrick Vezina 2015-11-12T10:30:00-05:00
Rewriting Life Microbes Engineered to Prevent Obesity Genetically engineered bacteria ward off obesity in mice, showing how the microbiome could be used treat chronic diseases in people. by Katherine Bourzac 2015-04-08T17:07:00-04:00
Rewriting Life A Pill Filled with Bacteria Instead of Drugs Delivering healthy bacteria in a pill could help patients harboring out-of-balance microbial communities. by Susan Young Rojahn 2013-12-03T00:00:00-05:00
Rewriting Life Transplanted Gut Bugs Protect Mice from Diabetes Intestinal microbes from male mice changed the hormones and disease rates of female mice. by Susan Young Rojahn 2013-01-21T00:00:00-05:00
Rewriting Life Bacteria Genetically Engineered to Grow in Stripes Scientists can control the number of stripes in the bacterial bulls-eye by tweaking a single gene. by Emily Singer 2011-10-15T00:33:00-04:00
