“To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life.”

The new synthetic cell carries a line from James Joyce’s, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Inscribed in its DNA as a watermark, “To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life.

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Adventures in Synthetic Biology

“So this is what we change to reprogram this critter? LOOKS EASY!”

A comic twist on some current events. AiSB.vol1.pdf

Adventures in Synthetic Biology by [...]

hacking biology and 3D printing (BBC video and article)

“Hacking and making is no longer just about hardward and software, increasingly it is about wetware – that’s biology to the uninitiated.”

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Bacteria that glows in the dark can be cultivated using materials bought [...]