Dutch Design Week 2013: Portuguese designer Susana Soares has developed a device for detecting cancer and other serious diseases using trained bees ( + slideshow). More about Honey bees can be trained to detect cancer "in ten minutes" says designer
Bacteria from personalities including artist Olafur Eliasson, curator Hans Ulrich Obrist and chef Michael Pollan have been used to make human cheese as part of an exhibition about synthetic biology in Dublin. More about Olafur Eliasson's tears used to make human cheese
Competition: Dezeen has teamed up with Intier Automotive Eybl to give readers the chance to win one of three chairs moulded from flax. More about Competition: three FLAXX chairs to be won
Swedish design collective Front has designed a cloud-shaped ice cream in collaboration with dessert company Häagen-Dazs. More about Häagen-Dazs Cloud ice cream by Front
Interview: the designer of the original 1959 MINI "would have a lot of respect for the cleverness" of the latest incarnation of the car, according to Adrian van Hooydonk, head of design at MINI parent company BMW Group (+ slideshow + interview). More about Alec Issigonis "would be happy that MINI is alive and kicking" says BMW design chief
As it's World Toilet Day, here's a selection of our favourite toilets from the Dezeen archives, including a straw-bale urinal for rock festivals and a pissoir that straps to a tree. More about To celebrate World Toilet Day, here are Dezeen's favourite unusual toilets
Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby's creative consultancy MAP has designed a build-your-own computer kit (+ slideshow). More about Kano computer kit by MAP
Dezeen promotion: a chandelier of glass pendants that resemble fishing floats by designer Nao Tamura will be displayed at design brand Luminaire's exhibition space to coincide with Design Miami next month. More about Flow(t) glassware by Nao Tamura at Luminaire Lab
The colour of light emitted by this lamp can be controlled using syringes filled with red, green and blue ink (+ movie). More about Colour Injector lamp by Taras Sgibnev
A single piece of felt wraps around the back and armrests of this solid wooden rocking chair by Rome designer Giancarlo Cutello (+ slideshow). More about Felt-upholstered rocking chair by Giancarlo Cutello
News: Taiwanese city Taipei has been announced as World Design Capital 2016, having been the only city to submit a bid for the title. More about Taipei announced as World Design Capital 2016
Opinion: as a sixth cyclist dies in London in two weeks, Sam Jacob argues that roads should be designed "in a way that incorporates intelligence as well as brute engineering" and asks:" "Who is the city for?" More about "It's time to refigure the design problem of the London street"
Motor brand MINI has launched the latest incarnation of the iconic car at the firm's production plant in Oxford, UK (+ slideshow). More about The new MINI launches
This synthetic biology project by designer Ai Hasegawa imagines that a woman could gestate and give birth to a baby from another species, in this case a dolphin, before eating it (+ movie). More about I Wanna Deliver A Dolphin... concept for humans giving birth to their food by Ai Hasegawa
These metal carafes by Amsterdam-based designer Michael Schoner look as if they have been chopped to create a spout (+ slideshow). More about Carafe with a chopped spout by Michael Schoner
Dezeen Music Project: French artist Bertrand Lanthiez created this audiovisual installation by projecting white light along criss-crossing woollen threads (+ movie). More about Sounds of Threads music visualisation using strands of wool by Bertrand Lanthiez
A giant chess set and a hot-dog-shaped rocking horse are on show at a retrospective of work by Spanish designer Jaime Hayón at the Groninger Museum in the Netherlands (+ slideshow + interview). More about Jaime Hayón says his Groninger Museum exhibition is full of "all kinds of crazy products"
In this exclusive interview, British fashion designer Paul Smith shows Dezeen his new exhibition at London's Design Museum, which contains a room "nicknamed the paracetamol room, because by the time you come out you'll probably need an aspirin". Update: this interview is featured in Dezeen Book of Interviews, which is on sale now for £12 (+ movie). More about "You'll probably need an aspirin" after my Design Museum show, says Paul Smith
Opinion: after five cyclists die on London roads in nine days, Dan Hill asks whether driverless cars would make our roads safer, or whether dependance on "an algorithmic organisation of society" would only encourage complacency. More about "Self-driving cars are the answer. But what is the question?"
Dezeen and MINI World Tour: in our next movie from Eindhoven, design graduates Aagje Hoekstra and Evelien Crooy show us the bioplastic and ink made from insects that they presented at this year's Dutch Design Week. More about Young designers transform beetles into plastic and printing ink