Metaphors for Biology: Time

Bioengineers commonly view microbes as reprogrammable “cellular factories” for manufacturing high-value molecules. But what are we throwing away?

A look inside Issue 08.

A new paper from Arc Institute shows that a generative AI model can be used to design viable bacteriophages.

An update on a forthcoming book from Asimov Press, which will delve into the origins of the machines, equipment, organisms, and reagents that have become familiar features of molecular biology laboratories over the last sixty years.

In 4,000 years, cataract surgery went from a crude procedure involving thorn instruments to a 20-minute operation with a 95 percent clinical success rate. The next step is broadening access.

Our ancestors once spread their excess effluent on their fields; now we mine it for vital molecules. The final article of Issue 07.