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Sunday, March 13, 2011

'Humanized mouse' among student science prizes

'Humanized mouse' among student science prizes

A "humanized mouse" is among four innovations honored this year with the Lemelson-MIT Student Prize, an annual invention contest that comes with a $30,000 check.

The mouse has been outfitted with a liver that was engineered to be human-like, a step that could improve the safety and efficiency of the drug discovery process.

Other winners include a manual-powered wheelchair with an automatic gear shift that improves mobility of wheelchair users; a novel technique to detect bombs and dangerous chemicals with terahertz waves, and a powerful portable microscope for hunting down malaria.

All of the inventions are breakthroughs that prove the spirit of innovation is alive and strong in at least some corners of America.

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