Enlisting microbes to solve global problems
Researchers harness bacteria to produce energy, clean up environment
Chemists engineer plants to produce new compounds
Periwinkle plant cells could synthesize potential drugs
Nanotubes sniff out cancer agents in living cells
Chemical engineers use carbon nanotubes to monitor chemotherapy, detect toxins at the single-molecule level
Immunity, from the cell's point of view
Chemical engineers study immune cells in unprecedented detail