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Special Online Collection: Materials and Biology

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In its 18 November 2005 issue, Science -- along with one of its online companion sites, the Science of Aging Knowledge Environment -- explores the interface between materials science and biology. News and Review articles in the journal examine how natural examples have inspired new approaches to engineered materials -- and, conversely, how advances at the frontiers of materials science, particularly at the nanoscale, are breaking new ground in cancer detection and treatment and in probing the world of the living cell. SAGE KE, meanwhile, reports on how engineers and biologists are making progress toward creating custom-made artificial tissues to rejuvenate aging bodies.

In Science

INTRODUCTION

Design for Living
M. Lavine, V. Vinson, R. Coontz

NEWS

Nanotechnology Takes Aim at Cancer
R. F. Service

REVIEWS

Exploring and Engineering the Cell Surface Interface
M. M. Stevens and J. H. George
Tissue Cells Feel and Respond to the Stiffness of Their Substrate
D. E. Discher, P. Janmey, Y.Wang
Rigid Biological Systems as Models for Synthetic Composites
G. Mayer
Inspirations from Biological Optics for Advanced Photonic Systems
L. P. Lee and R. Szema

Also of related interest in this issue:

Brevia: Directionally Controlled Fluorescence Emission in Butterflies
P. Vukusic and I. Hooper

In Science of Aging Knowledge Environment

NEWS SYNTHESIS

Bionic Grandma
R. J. Davenport
Engineered tissues might someday rejuvenate the elderly.

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Science. ISSN 0036-8075 (print), 1095-9203 (online)