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Pre-orders are open for the first commercially-available book to be encoded in DNA and sold in both mediums.

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

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.