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How a chemistry “purist” built one of World War II’s greatest applied R&D laboratories.

After his death in 1884, thousands of Gregor Mendel’s letters and notes — filled with scientific data and figures — were destroyed. What did the friar discover, and what have we forgotten?

Creating mirrored organisms using synthetic biology could seriously harm extant life, a 300-page report claims. While the risks from mirrored life are uncertain, it is best not to find out.

During a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship in 2009, Rich Pell stumbled upon declassified photographs of a top-secret bioweapons test from 1965, called Operation Shady Grove.

The Central Dogma is not a "dogma," and it has never been broken.

Or, the rise and regulation of reproductive technologies.