Army awards up to $50 million to establish Institute for Collaborative Biotechnologies
...have been integral and essential to the process of envisioning the Institute for Collaborative Biotechnologies." MIT's Belcher is known for nano-biotechnology research that began with a path-breaking experiment that engineered the binding of a biological material--peptides (short chains of amino acids)--to inorg...New prospects for treating muscular dystrophy: Stem cells restore muscle in MD mice
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