From engineered viruses, novel materials.
Could the tiniest organisms be the foundries of the future? Angela Belcher thinks so. The MIT materials scientist engineers viruses to manipulate compounds at the molecular level. A 2004 MacArthur Fellowship (a.k.a. "genius grant") winner, she's also a cofounder of Cambridge, MA's Cambrios Technologies, which applies her work to everything from lighting to microchip fabrication.
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