Scientists Report DNA Transplant
Organisms Adopt Donor Traits
 By Rick Weiss

Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, June 29, 2007; Page A03  

Scientists said yesterday that they had transplanted a microbe's entire, tangled mass of DNA into a closely related organism, a delicate operation that cleanly transformed the recipient from one species into the other

First Demonstration of nanoImmunology: a Nanomaterials-based Therapeutic Approach to Treat Allergy

ROANOKE, Va., Jun 20, 2007 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Researchers from Luna Innovations Incorporated (NASDAQ: LUNA) and Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) are the first to show that carbon nanospheres, sometimes referred to as "buckyballs," are able to block allergic response in human cell culture experiments and mice. These findings are described in a paper entitled "Fullerene Nanomaterials Inhibit the Allergic Response" published in the July 1 issue of the Journal of Immunology< ...