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Langer was trained as a chemical engineer, and his celebrated work has come at a time when huge strides in medicine--like the bumped-up potency of drugs--have coincided with advances in materials.

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Among the leaves and sticks and stones, the Stanford University chemical engineer is pioneering a radical method for producing new medicines to treat infections, cancer and other scourges--with the help of tiny, genetically modified soil bacteria.

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