Art meets Biotech...

Next time you hear the words "biotechnology" and think of either food or medicine, consider this.

Art Experts in Venezuala are using biotechnology applications to prevent wood beetles from destroying a historic wood carving of the Virgin Mary. They plan to "vaccinate" the carving with spores of a bacterial toxin which is deadly to insects but harmless to humans, and, they hope, to works of art too.

One of the experts involved claims "The idea is that this biotechnology application could be used massively in the work of art conservation."