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NewScientist
Potentially fatal infections could be diagnosed in hours rather than days thanks to two techniques involving magnets, cutting waiting times and saving lives. Each year, over 90,000 people in the US are infected with a fungus called Candida, which has a 40 per cent mortality rate...

Pop!Tech
It may have been serendipity. While Donald Ingber was enrolled in an undergraduate sculpture course, he was also learning how to culture cells in a biology class, which led him to an unexpected breakthrough in comprehending cellular construction. It’s that same kind of chance that Ingber hopes will infiltrate Harvard University’s Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, where he is the organization’s founding director...

Harvard Focus
Mimicking the symbiotic evolution that let plants reap energy from sunlight, HMS researchers have injected photosynthetic bacteria into the cells of fish, which then went on to develop normally even as the solar-powered bacteria lived -- for a time -- inside them...

The Razor
Thorsten Schmidt can now say he had a hand in creating the world’s smallest wedding rings, measuring less than a thousandth of the width of a human hair. The interlocked rings, known as catenans (after the Latin word for “chain”), were made from looped strands of DNA and measure just 18 nanometers wide...

Harvard Magazine
...Harvard’s Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering is taking on the ambitious task of applying the astounding capabilities of living systems to better engineer artificial ones...

Harvard Gazette
Harvard students presented ideas to fight the world’s water problems, unveiling biodegradable mats impregnated with seeds to fight desertification, an in-mouth water filter to clean dirty water...

Harvard Crimson
Birds swarm around an unknown object in flight, mistaking it for one of their own, but fail to communicate with the device: an autonomous flying robot...