Life is Infinitely Weird, Eh? It’s hard to “program biology” because cells are packed tighter than a family reunion at your grandmother’s single-story home.
Codon: Biology's Promise We’ve made incredible strides in health, medicine, and food over the last fifty years. Many of our greatest leaps were borne by biotechnology.
Cocaine from Tobacco Plants: The Final Index A new study marks the first time that the cocaine biosynthesis pathway, native to coca leaves, has been ported into another plant.
6000+ Phages with CRISPR More than 6,000 different viruses encode a CRISPR system. So when you hear about Cas9 and Cas12 and Cas13 and CasX, don’t stand with your mouth agape, amazed at humankind’s ingenuity in finding variants of the same thing.
Control Genes with Light Engineered proteins, tuned to respond to different light levels, control gene expression in bacteria and mammalian cells.
Five Gene Therapy Trials (The Medicine Issue) Including first-in-human zinc finger nuclease trials & an RNA vaccine for Ebola virus.
Resurrecting Ancient Rubiscos By studying the history of Earth's most important protein, scientists bolster blueprints to engineer it.
DNA from Ancient Greek Soldiers A diverse group of fifty-four Sicilians, who lived between the eight- and fifth centuries B.C., get sequenced.