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Biology is a Burrito

Cells are so dense, it’s a wonder they work at all.

Feb 28 •

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Progress on Self-Cloning Crops

A Q&A with Mary Gehring, plant biologist at MIT’s Whitehead Institute, about synthetic apomixis.

May 23 •

Codon Digest: Agents Design Proteins

Plus: Epigenome editing cuts cholesterol in monkeys.

May 22 •

Everything is Cabbage. Now It's Gene-Edited.

Plus: The F.D.A. makes an unexpected decision.

May 18 •

Monkey Embryos Grow to 25 Days — No Womb Required

Watch now (38 sec) | Research Roundup // Plus: Yeast evolve in the lab.

May 15 •

Codon News: Cloned Mongolian Horses

Plus: More problems for lab-grown meat.

May 11 •

Brazil’s Mosquito Factory is Supposed to Curb Dengue. There's A Better Way.

If you want to kill mosquitoes, sometimes you gotta make more of ‘em.

May 2 •

Codon Digest: Vaccine Printer Go Brrrrr!

Plus: Genome editing gets a boost & memes, memes, memes.

Apr 30 •

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