It does so by the simple expedient of killing the infected cells.

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The carbon amalgam can be applied from solution using simple methods, meaning the flexible cells could be used to coat surfaces, although you won't be seeing it smeared over anything too soon.

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These grid cells create a direct, intuitively simple map of everywhere you go, basically, sending the data to your hippocampus, the seat of memory and emotion in your brain.

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The basic design choice people faced with solar cells a few years back was quite simple.

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But she said the model was extremely simple and may not apply to larger numbers of cells.

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The university's Schaap laboratory studied a simple multicellular organism, Dictyostelium, in which motile cells (those which can move spontaneously) differentiate into two immobile cell types: stalk cells and spores.

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These cells, in turn, are sets of transistors wired together to perform simple logical operations.

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With one slight exception, perhaps of at least curiosity interest to Mathematica aficionados: he suggested that cells in Mathematica notebook documents (now CDFs) should be indicated not by simple vertical lines but instead by brackets with little serifs at their ends.

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