Essay

The hype and possibilities of machines that dream of Nobels.

Genetic engineering as a foundational technology.

I’m ending the weekly newsletter to make time for deeper pieces.

Ten research papers that shaped the year in biology and biotechnology.

I am sharing a few lessons that I’ve learned while writing Codon.

Our best hope to boost crop yields is to tinker with photosynthesis directly, either by accelerating photosynthesis enzymes or by doing away with photosynthesis entirely and giving plants a more efficient alternative.

When DeepMind announced its public release of 200 million predicted protein structures, I decided to study how various news outlets covered the announcement.

A few recent biotechnology papers have strange text in their Methods sections.