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
Got Impossible Milk? The Quest for Lab-Made Dairy
With advances in synthetic biology, researchers and entrepreneurs strive to create cows’ milk without cows. Source: NYT > Business – Knvul Sheikh
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
Frances Arnold Turns Microbes Into Living Factories
Instead of synthesizing new biochemicals from scratch, the Nobel Prize-winning chemist puts nature to the task — with astonishing results. Source: NYT > Business – Natalie Angier
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