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synthetic biology

A butterfly's wings are the perfect mold to grow neurons on

Butterfly wings provide the right topography for nerve cells to grow, with an aim towards ameliorating hearing loss

Bioengineered bacteria can make dyes more sustainable

Researchers gave bacteria the genetic tool they needed to make indigo naturally

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Ambitious gene editing needs an ambitious pair of scissors

Amit Choudhary speaks about being agnostic to scientific disciplines, and the power of CRISPR/Cas9

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Our computers are limited by their rock-based architecture

It's time to rethink computing from the ground up and model it on nature's processes

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Wildfires are burning with an intensity that microbial communities haven’t evolved to endure

As desertification threatens, synthetic biologists are pondering new ways of helping soil heal

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The banana as we know it is going extinct. Could gene editing save it?

How the Cavendish pandemic could pave the way for tastier bananas

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What would it be like to grow up as the first mammoth-elephant hybrid?

Meet Greta, the loneliest creature in the world

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Don’t look now, but we could soon be growing steaks and pork loins in a lab

Inside the international research effort to deliver a more substantial cut of cultured meat

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Inside Cameron Semper’s efforts to reimagine cultured seafood

Meet the young scientist trying to get the beef out of cell-based fish

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How an undergraduate paper helped launch the cultured meat industry

Inside Isha Datar's 10-year push to make meat without animals a reality

In the future, illnesses might be diagnosed with viral lasers

Scientists have engineered viruses to emit a pulse of light, making them easily traceable

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My greatest genetic engineering fear: that we'll try to erase our flaws

Deciding what's a flaw is more complicated than it seems

How scientists use light to manipulate cells with the flick of a switch

Optogenetics lets us probe the inner workings of cells with unprecedented precision