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Scientist to Watch Cullen Buie, MIT researcher, talks about his quest to devise a method for quickly determining the pathogenicity of microbes.

By The Scientist Staff | August 1, 2016

MIT engineer Cullen Buie researches a novel method to quickly sort and identify the various strains of bacteria.

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A magnetically controlled device could have applications in studies of cell biology and biophysics.

By The Scientist Staff

Scientists engineered biomaterials similar to those chameleons use to change color and applied them to a robot.

By Jim Daley

The yeast’s output of noscapine, a cough suppressant naturally made by poppies, is 18,000-fold higher than previous attempts.

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