two research teams announced that they had turned regular body cells into the equivalent of embryonic stem cells just by injecting four genes.

They claim to have built an artificial chromosome, and are on schedule to grow "the first living cells with fully artificial genomes"

An amputee may one day be able to feel with an artificial limb as although it was his own

human embryos with animal DNA.

researchers put computer chips into moths, allowing them to be remotely controlled

scans found near-normal brain activity in a woman who had been diagnosed as vegetative because she didn't respond visibly to stimuli

shark fetus developed in a tank with no apparent father

put a high-density bar code on any object to encode information about it