Samples have been sent to dozens of potential vaccine makers, said Michael Shaw, lab team leader for the novel H1N1 response at the CDC.
Grasp Lab team leader, Dr Vijay Kumar, believes such autonomous, self-learning UAVs could be used to search buildings for signs of life after natural disasters, for example, or check for chemical or radiation leaks.
In the lab, the research team increased the levels of the protein in mice brains to see if the problem could be resolved.
He told BBC News that the journal article described everything needed to establish the test in a forensic lab, but that the team was also in touch with industry regarding their knowledge about hair and eye colour prediction.
The team behind Dinner Lab scouts the city for chefs and sous chefs who specialize in ethnic food, then sets up dinner parties in remote locations to create an experience that feels more like a vacation than a pop up.
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In 1991 Buck left Columbia and set up her own lab in the department of neurobiology at the Harvard Medical School, where she and her team raced against Axel's lab at Columbia to figure out how all those receptors that she and Axel had identified actually work.
The OSU team built a substantial lab model and see a clear path to scale.
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In the restaurant's kitchen and a scientific lab in Barcelona, he and his team deconstructed ingredients to what he calls the molecular level, then reconstructed dishes using unexpected re-combinations of the original components, presenting the results in mouthful-sized portions.
Another team at MIT's Media Lab have been looking at other ways of keeping people healthy.
This emerged in the lab of MIT biologist Leonard Guarente, whose team spent years counting thousands of yeast cells under a microscope.
Nigel Morris is CEO of Aegis Media Americas and EMEA, one of the biggest media and marketing services companies globally, overseeing Carat, iProspect, Vizeum, Copernicus, Team Epic, Posterscope The Story Lab, ICUC, and RoundarchIsobar.
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To understand these differences in more detail, a team had 156 couples come into the lab and describe a past situation that had led to some sort of unhappiness or frustration.
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However, the team only have permission to carry out the lab experiments and as yet this would not be allowed to be offered as a treatment.
Google's Cloud Platform Developer Relations team is spearheading a project called the Data Sensing Lab, which utilizes a network of Arduino sensors to collect ambient data and translate it into easily understood visualizations.
The team has tested HoloHands by moving silica microspheres using the lab's otherwise standard infrared holographic laser system.
"We had the team inspect the airport, the seaport, the regional lab that tests for the influenza, " he said.
The smart bag, called Build Your Own Bag (bYOB), is just one object that can be constructed using computerized fabric patches designed by a team of engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab.
For example, while moving Shenzhou-9 towards the space lab, the flight plan called for five orbital corrections, but the team on the ground in China was able to accomplish it in four.
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Earlier this year Buck moved her lab to the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, taking her seven team members with her.
The team, led by Giulia Biffi, a researcher in Balasubramaninan's lab, produced antibody proteins that were designed specifically to track down and bind to regions of human DNA that were rich in the quadruplex structure.
"Integrated with LG, this team will be the heart and soul of the new LG Silicon Valley Lab, focused on bringing innovative technology solutions to market through the most popular platforms for sharing and consuming content and experiences, " he said.
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The Data Sensing Lab is the next step in Google's quest to master environmental data collection after absorbing the team behind Behavio last month.
The team, from the University of Nottingham and the London-based Institute of Education Knowledge Lab, looked at evidence from hundreds of academic papers, blogs and reviews from all over the globe.
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