Biotech health care innovations meet security challenges

The level and speed of innovations taking place in the biotech industry are baffling. On the one hand, it makes us hopeful we can quickly reduce the number of illnesses and their consequences through technological advancement—saving thousands of lives. On the other, concerns about the application...

When Biology Becomes Software

All of life is based on the coordinated action of genetic parts genes and their controlling sequences found in the genomes the complete DNA sequence of organisms. Genes and genomes are based on code-- just like the digital language of computers. But instead of zeros and ones, four DNA letters ---...