SciStarter helps citizen scientists discover new projects: SciStarter is an incredible database of science projects that anyone can participate in. Read more about the website and some of the projects it includes here.
Engineering self-destructing Salmonella to make better vaccines: Researchers at Arizona State University are doing an amazing thing. Wei Kong and others in Roy Curtiss’s lab are engineering Salmonella to turn it into a delivery system for DNA vaccines. They recently published their advances in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Hypothetically such vaccines could be used against not just viruses but also fungal or parasitic infections and could also be a key defense against bioterrorism. Read more here.
Summer E. Allen, PhD 