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DNA of Things: how a plastic bunny got DNA

Can you imagine storing files inside your everyday objects? This may sound like science fiction, but in our work, we give a glimpse of a future where all products contain their production plans and user manuals inside preventing the loss of information for thousands of... click to read more

Julian Koch | PhD student at ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

Robert N. Grass | Professor at ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

biotechnology

DNA data storage

chemical engineering

data science

3D-printing

Reading time 3.5 min

published on Sep 14, 2020

A special delivery for malaria-transmitting mosquitoes

Infected female Anopheles mosquitoes deliver malaria parasites to hundreds of millions of people worldwide, killing nearly half a million people every year. In the past two decades, we have successfully decreased the global malaria burden by half thanks to chemical insecticides, which are sprayed in... click to read more

Etienne Bilgo | Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Institut de Recherche en Sciences de la Santé/Centre Muraz, Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso

Brian Lovett | PhD student at Department of Entomology, University of Maryland, Maryland, USA

malaria

mosquitoes

vector biology

mycology

biotechnology

Reading time 3.5 min

published on Dec 18, 2019