Psychiatrist and bioengineer Karl Deisseroth sees depressed patients at a Stanford University clinic every week.

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Halas worked with her Rice colleague, bioengineer Jennifer West, and they found that they could inject nanoshells into mice with cancer and get the particles to accumulate around the tumor.

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They will soon bioengineer bacteria to melt oil out of tar sands, turn grass into diesel fuel and scavenge natural resources of every kind out of low-grade, thinly dispersed deposits.

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The main difference between the two creatures "is that the real jellyfish can go and get nutrients and ours can't, " said John Dabiri, a co-author of the study and a bioengineer at Caltech.

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The stored data "is sequential, like a magnetic tape, where you have to spool through stuff to get at the data, " said bioengineer Sriram Kosuri at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard, who was the project's lead researcher.

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