Stories by Deborah Erickson

New biotechnology drugs target intracellular communication

DNA-sequencing methods show clinical promise

Will safety questions curb public appetite for gene-spliced food?

Fine-pore membranes remove viruses from biological drugs

Marine mammals are a barometer of ocean health

A precursor protein may predict the risk for Alzheimer's disease

Bioengineers produce versions of body tissues

New ways for the image makers to invent reality

Companies queue up to realize the promise of gene therapy

Plastics replace silica to make lower-cost aerogels

A new shellfish toxin threatens fisheries

The masses of information written in human DNA are being translated into the precise ones and zeros of computer code. The choices made now will determine whether the genome project is a font for future discovery or a binary junkyard of data.

Another candidate in the search for a blood substitute

Tiny spheres may make oral delivery of proteins a reality

Biotechnology's new wave hopes that being first will payoff

Growth factors may help heal stubborn wounds

Drugs based on neuropeptides may soon treat eating disorders

Green work will be different, but there might be more of it

Drug delivery in reverse could be a diabetic's boon

Some clever chemistry churns out a new polymer