Articles

Water is the most significant bottleneck in terraforming the Red Planet

A short work of speculative fiction.

Chinese scientists discovered artemisinin in 1971 as part of a secret military project that merged Eastern and Western medicine. Their work saved millions of lives.

Michael Elowitz on the early years of synthetic biology and the programmability of living cells.

GLP-1 drugs could one day outsell iPhones, but there is not enough biomanufacturing capacity to make them. For solutions, we should look away from the factory.

In the laboratory, cellular reprogramming can reverse epigenetic damage and reset cells to a "young" state. Can we do the same for entire organisms?