A new study in PLoS ONE finds that infection with the malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum causes alterations in behavioral responses to host-derived olfactory stimuli in host-seeking female Anopheles gambiae sensu stricto mosquitoes. Researchers found “significantly more infected mosquitoes...

A new article in The New York Times reports “Scientists have finally succeeded in using cloning to create human embryonic stem cells.” Researchers “took skin cells from a baby with a genetic disease and fused them with donated human eggs to create human embryos that were genetically...

An article in The New York Times reports the successful transplantation of a bioengineered trachea in a 2 1/2 year old girl who was born without a windpipe. Dr. Paolo Macchiarini, a specialist in regenerative medicine, and his team “made a half-inch diameter tube out of plastic fibers, bathed it in a...