Media Coverage

Bloomberg
Scientists from Helicos BioScience Corp. have mapped RNA, a key player in each person’s genetic blueprint, in a step that may boost researchers’ search for the roots of disease. 

Economist.com
Cancer is deadly because it comes from within and evades the body’s natural defences. Attempts to train the immune system to recognise and attack cancers have so far failed. But a new technique that uses doped implants is showing promise.

New York Times
L. Mahadevan, 44, an applied mathematician at Harvard who investigates behaviors like how flags flutter and how skin wrinkles is among 24 recipients of the $500,000 “genius awards,” to be announced on Tuesday by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.

Harvard Gazette 
L. Mahadevan said he has always been motivated by curiosity about the things around him and how they work.

Boston Globe
L. Mahadevan said he was "in a state of shock" after receiving the call that he was awarded a 2009 MacArthur "genius" grant.

Popular Science
Last seen as an award winning prototype in 2008, the Andrea air purifier hits shelves this October.

Science Magazine, Revolution blog
The difficulty of providing a blood supply has always limited the size of engineered tissues. Consequently, many scientists are focusing on designing blood vessels and incorporating them in engineered tissues.

CBS News
Investigating the Future of Candy

ScienceDaily
A research team has found a new computer tomography contrast agent for visualizing the special distributions of glycosaminoglycans – the anionic sugars that account for the strength of joint cartilage.

USA Today
"Plastics" may have been the Baby Boomer watchword, but "synthetic" rules today. That's "synthetic" as in synthetic biology, the hottest biomedical buzzword, promising new drugs, new fuel and someday, new life.