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Normally this kind of thing goes above my head, but WTOP reported on this engineer who's training viruses to build stuff, with end-result applications like computer wires and self-repairing thread. The WTOP mini-report is here (it's the report from 2/25/05, "Viral Engineers").

Once again, a little behind in the news (about a month and a half), but I'm slowly catching up.