World’s smallest electronic diode made from single DNA molecule
Electronic components 1,000 times smaller than with silicon may be possible
Hacking life: how to program new functions for living bacteria and yeast
Engineering bacteria to aid digestion or yeast to produce custom beer
3D-printing a structure with active chemistry
Forget labs — now you can simply print objects in your kitchen that create cool chemical reactions (attention: CIA and Homeland Security)
Largest network of cortical neurons mapped from ~100 terabytes data set
“Functional connectomics” research bridges gap between function and wiring in the brain — a major step in an IARPA project to create a roadmap for reverse-engineering the brain
Creating custom drugs on a portable refrigerator-size device
A breakthrough for responding quickly to disease outbreak and producing small quantities of custom drugs needed for clinical trials, treating rare diseases, or use as personalized “orphan drugs”
How to use laser cloaking to hide Earth from remote detection by aliens
NASA’s Kepler telescope detects habitable exoplanets by watching for tiny dips in the light from stars. What if aliens have the same idea when observing our Sun?
An astounding nanoscale magnified view of bacterial ‘motors’
The molecular secrets of the strongest motor known in nature revealed
Nanoparticle ‘cluster bombs’ destroy cancer cells
New delivery method directly penetrates tumor cells, avoiding toxic side effects of cisplatin chemotherapy drug
