Muslim man Gives His Shoes And Socks To Homeless Man On Bus, Walks Home Barefoot.
A man sat alone on the bus with two plastic hairnets covering his feet instead of shoes. Another passenger, upon noticing his footwear, promptly took off his shoes and socks and gave them to the stranger, then walked home barefoot.
Enveloped viruses (bottom) coat themselves with lipids. New lipid-coated DNA nanodevices (top) closely resemble those viruses and evade the immune defenses of mice. Image: Steven Perrault/Harvard.
Viral Membrane Protects Medical Nanorobots From Immune System
Scientists say they have developed a cloaking device to spirit medical nanorobots of the future past immune systems into diseased cells. Their innovation comes from stealing a powerful weapon viruses wield to infect their hosts.
Some viruses wrap themselves in a protective membrane to avoid detection by their host’s immune system and enter cells they are trying to infect. A team at Harvard’s Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering have been able to construct their own version of a viral membrane.