Duodenoscopes have sickened hundreds of patients in hospital outbreaks. Now some experts are demanding the devices be redesigned or taken off the market. Source: NYT > Business – Roni Caryn Rabin
New Weapons Against Cancer: Millions of Bacteria Programmed to Kill
Genetically modified microbes release “nanobodies” that alert the immune system to cancer in mice, scientists report. Source: NYT > Business – Carl Zimmer
Matter: Scientists Created Bacteria With a Synthetic Genome. Is This Artificial Life?
In a milestone for synthetic biology, colonies of E. coli thrive with DNA constructed from scratch by humans, not nature. Source: NYT > Business – CARL ZIMMER