Roger Highfield
Using synthetic biology to design new kinds of life—and novel drugs to treat diseases
All living things on Earth are built from proteins created from the same 20 chemical units, called amino acids. Now, ...
Computer simulation reveals how cancer cells evolve
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Could Charles Darwin help ...
DNA may be the best way to preserve data
Recording media and storage devices last decades, but DNA stores information for thousands of years. Maybe we should store our ...
Craig Venter’s vision of the age of human-controlled evolution
J Craig Venter has been a molecular-biology pioneer for two decades. After developing expressed sequence tags in the 90s, he ...