BioCoder is a quarterly newsletter for DIYbio, synthetic bio, and anything related. You'll discover:Articles about interesting projects and experiments, such as the glowing plantArticles about tools, both those you buy and those you b...

BioCoder is a quarterly newsletter for DIYbio, synthetic bio, and anything related. You'll discover:Articles about interesting projects and experiments, such as the glowing plantArticles about tools, both those you buy and those you b...

A Top 10 Science Book for Spring 2013, Publishers Weekly2014 AAAS / Subaru SB&F Prize for Excellence in Science BooksIn Frankenstein's Cat, Emily Anthes travels from petri dish to pet store as she explores how biotechnology is shaping...

From apples that don't turn brown when you slice them to new ways of treating deadly diseases, genetics are at the heart of many of today's most incredible innovations. Readers will learn about the history of genetics from the initial...

A trailblazing biologist grapples with her role in the biggest scientific discovery of our era: a cheap, easy way of rewriting genetic code, with nearly limitless promise and peril. Not since the atomic bomb has a technology so alarme...

\"Entertaining and prescient…Hockfield demonstrates how nature’s molecular riches may be leveraged to provide potential solutions to some of humanity’s existential challenges.\" —Adrian Woolfson, Science\n\nA c...

In the fall of 1980, Genentech, Inc., a little-known California genetic engineering company, became the overnight darling of Wall Street, raising over $38 million in its initial public stock offering. Lacking marketed products or subs...

Fascinating narrative science that explores the next frontier in medicine and genetics through the very personal prism of the children and families gene therapy has touched.Eight-year-old Corey Haas was nearly blind from a hereditary ...

In Ray Kurzweil's New York Times bestseller The Singularity is Near, the futurist and entrepreneur describes the Singularity, a likely future utterly different than anything we can imagine. The Singularity is triggered by the tremendo...

It is often claimed that the case against genetically modified (GM) crops and foods is based on emotion, not science, and that to oppose GM crop and food technology is to be anti-science. It is also claimed that GM crops offer higher ...

Today's scientists are radically exceeding the boundaries of evolution and engineering entirely novel creatures. Cutting edge "synthetic biology" may lead to solutions to some of the world's most pressing crises and p...

Could extinct species, like mammoths and passenger pigeons, be brought back to life? The science says yes. In How to Clone a Mammoth, Beth Shapiro, evolutionary biologist and pioneer in "ancient DNA" research, walks readers through th...