AFM

Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is the most severe form of the debilitating genetic disorder. Researchers have used a new gene therapy technique to restore muscle strength and stabilize the symptoms of the disorder in dogs, in an important step towards the treatment being applied to children.

During the recent LEGO2NANO summer school held at Tsinghua University in Beijing, a group of Chinese and English students succeeded in making a Lego-based scanning atomic force microscope with nanoscale resolution in five days at a cost less than $500.