Reprogrammable material
Scientists have constructed for the first time a metamaterial with mechanical properties that can be reprogrammed after manufacture – by applying an applied external magnetic field (Nature, doi: 10.1038/s41586-020-03123-5).
Tracking cancer metastasis
Gene editing tool CRISPR-Cas9 has been used to track metastasis in mice implanted with thousands of modified human cancer cells. The technology enabled the creation of a map of cell divisions visualised using coloured phylogenetic trees, where each colour represents a different location in the body. Read the article in C&I Magazine.