December 2002

• Living tissue made to order - Premium content

  Laser shoots out stream of cells to repair wounds.

  30 December 2002

• Stem and cancer cells have something in common - Premium content

  Shared protein patrols cell proliferation.

  30 December 2002

• Chemical stops deadly diarrhoea - Premium content

  The molecular stopper could fight cholera and mimic cystic fibrosis.

  30 December 2002

• Tongue's out for BSE - Premium content

  Mouth's muscle could be a route for infection.

  30 December 2002

• Browsers go back to the future - Premium content

  Programmers redesign button that accounts for 40% of all Internet clicks.

  30 December 2002

• Foot-and-Mouth would have jumped fence - Premium content

  Vaccine model suggests a shot in the rump is worth two in the head.

  23 December 2002

• Chemical attraction solves geometric puzzles - Premium content

  Circuit builders could capitalize on self-assembling floating patterns.

  23 December 2002

• Electric dreams infect waking memories - Premium content

  Black and white imagery makes dreams monochrome.

  23 December 2002

• Green snow washes clean away - Premium content

  Potatoes replace plastic on environmentally friendly film sets.

  23 December 2002

• Humans more similar than different - Premium content

  Ethnicity may be as good a guide to genetic susceptibilities as testing.

  20 December 2002