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
What if an RNA molecule could do it all over again?
A new research project is letting RNA take the reins of life back from DNA
Bioengineered bacteria can make dyes more sustainable
Researchers gave bacteria the genetic tool they needed to make indigo naturally
Ambitious gene editing needs an ambitious pair of scissors
Amit Choudhary speaks about being agnostic to scientific disciplines, and the power of CRISPR/Cas9
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
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
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
What would it be like to grow up as the first mammoth-elephant hybrid?
Meet Greta, the loneliest creature in the world
"Directed evolution" gets around CRISPR's inherent limitations
New gene editing technology may make molecular scissors more useful
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
Meet Betty Hay, the scientist who saw how cells grow and limbs regenerate
Happy birthday to the trailblazing developmental biologist
Inside Cameron Semper’s efforts to reimagine cultured seafood
Meet the young scientist trying to get the beef out of cell-based fish
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
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