A German team has used gene therapy to grow replacement skin for a young boy with a rare genetic disorder, and concern carbon nanotubes used in boats, buildings, and sporting equipment could be as bad for you as asbestos.

Professional video game players could soon have player unions, as the industry goes global and revenues soar.

Controlling insects using lasers, baking fougasse, disease diagnosis apps, and a history of vaccines.

The Photonic Fence is a laser fly swat that never misses the mark. Using powerful cameras, this hi-tech bug zapper scans for pests and by measuring their size, shape, speed and wing-beat frequency in real time it can dispatch up to 20 insects a second. Arty Makagon from Intellectual Ventures wants to use it to control malarial mosquitoes, and one day the other insects bugging you.

Sam Forbes is on a mission to get more New Zealanders eating real bread made from whole grains grown here in New Zealand. He shows us how to bake one of his best-sellers, fougasse; a tasty, oily, crunchy French flatbread with a curious back story.

Alex Mariakakis is developing apps that will use smartphone cameras to provide a quick and early diagnosis of concussion, jaundice and even pancreatic cancer.

'The Vaccine Race' is a history of our fight against viral diseases. In the book, journalist Meredith Wadman tells the story of a major breakthrough in cell biology that remains important to this today, the use of human rather than animal cells in the development of the vaccines now administered to millions around the world every day.

Do filters make smoking more deadly? Precision gene editing: a new approach, lightning strike survivors, and Facebook's feed furore.

Could filter cigarettes, touted and sold to us by the tobacco industry since the 1960s as a safer way to smoke, and still believed by many smokers to make their habit less dangerous, actually be making smoking even more deadly? Kathryn Barnsley of the University of Tasmania's been reviewing the evidence.

Since it was first discovered 4 years ago, the gene editing technology CRISPR-Cas 9 has shown potential in its ability to remodel our DNA and correct genetic abnormalities associated with health problems with great precision. Professor David Liu is a chemical biologist at Harvard University who's using CRISPR as a springboard to discover even more precise ways to edit our DNA to correct genetic defects. The technique's called 'base pair editing' and it's outlined in the journal Nature this week.