Engineering biology is already transforming technology and science, and a consortium of researchers across many disciplines in the international Genome Project-write is calling for more disc... Read more
Synthetic biology: Strange medicine SET a thief to catch a thief is an old proverb. In the 1920s, shortly after the discovery of viruses, it was put to good use by doctors. They found they c... Read more
Thirty years ago, the future lay in programming computers. Today, it’s programming cells. That was the message of panelists at an afternoon session yesterday (March 25) in Stanley Hall audit... Read more
Inside The Solazyme Kitchen You read that right: Algae. You might have thought it was just for biofuels (or just for floating in the ocean), but algae-based oils are the food additive of the... Read more
Image via CrunchBase J. Craig Venter is moving past the human genome — for example, by designing algae that could replace fossil fuels. THE scientific rebel J. Craig Venter created headlines... Read more