synthetic biology

Meditations on the intersection of humanity and technology

What is deep tech? A look at how it could shape the future

How we're using AI to discover new antibiotics

The next software revolution: programming biological cells

How synthetic biology could wipe out humanity -- and how we can stop it

5 challenges we could solve by designing new proteins

The age of genetic wonder

How CRISPR lets us edit our DNA

Soon we'll cure diseases with a cell, not a pill

Can the damaged brain repair itself?

A new way to grow bone

Leather and meat without killing animals

How we'll resurrect the gastric brooding frog, the Tasmanian tiger

Re-engineering mosquitos to fight disease

Could tissue engineering mean personalized medicine?

Print your own medicine

Biohacking -- you can do it, too

We need better drugs -- now

Plant fuels that could power a jet

Experiments that hint of longer lives