TRENDS & INNOVATIONS.(TO THE POINT)

** Swiss researchers found infectious proteins in the muscle tissue of Creutzfeldt-Jakob patients. That means the rare and fatal brain disease could be transmitted via surgery. The study was published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

** The record for the world's fastest transmitter was broken by the same team that had made it. University of Illinois researchers created a 507 gigahertz device, 57 GHz faster than their previous model.

** A new fruit fly gene map details the way proteins interact within …