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A Night of Food Futurism
A science fiction story brought to life through a pro-GMO dinner.
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Alexandra Balwit
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Inside ARIA, the UK's Bet to Build Scientific Revolutions
An interview with Ilan Gur, CEO of ARIA, about the organization’s efforts to build scientific waves.
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Eric Gilliam
Life as Slime
Prominent scientists continue to claim life is “just” slime on a spinning rock. However, in an age when the rarity and fragility of life are…
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A Visual Guide to Genome Editors
A selected encyclopedia of major gene-editing systems, together with illustrated diagrams.
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Evan DeTurk
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The Eternal Life and Art of Maxwell Ardeen
Bioart emerges where biological science, technology, and aesthetics collide. For one terminally ill artist, it offered a chance at immortality.
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Spencer Nitkey - Writer
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May 2025

Toxic Proteins for Drug Discovery
Toxic amino acids, peptides, and proteins — which first evolved as molecular weapons deployed by species in conflict — can also serve as blueprints for…
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Reservoirs of Resistance
By studying the millennia-old arms race between soil-dwelling microbes, scientists can pre-empt antibiotic resistance before it emerges in people.
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Keeping Ahead of Contagion
We have the technology to detect airborne pathogens in real time. Now we must use it.
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Deena Mousa
Model Organisms Are Not Static
A research study reveals that some vertebrate genomes mutate 40-times faster than others.
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Seven Wonders of Biology
A decades-old essay offers newfound appreciation for progress.
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Niko McCarty
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How Much Information is in DNA?
Answering this question may seem straightforward, but actually requires an odyssey through information theory and molecular biology.
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dynomight
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Making the Centrifuge
The modern centrifuge was first designed for milkfat separation in the dairy industry. Today, it is ubiquitous in research laboratories. To whom do we…
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