1. BIOTECH:
'I found it cool to try to build a species with my own hands'
It's a big fuss for a small, blind fly. To little fanfare, Eduardo Moreno, a University of Bern geneticist, has created what he calls the world's first "synthetic" animal species, a crippled, bioengineered fruit fly that, while failing to breed with its natural peers, freely gets down with its own kind -- a trait that cuts straight to the classical definition of a species. Go to story #1