News From the Field MIT, BU Team Builds Viruses to Combat Harmful 'Biofilms'
July 6, 2007
| In one of the first potential applications of synthetic biology, an emerging field that aims to design and build useful biomolecular systems, researchers from MIT and Boston University are engineering viruses to attack and destroy the surface "biofilms" that harbor harmful bacteria in the body and on industrial and medical devices.
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Source Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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