It might sound like something from the pages of Brave New World, like “a prodigious improvement … on nature” – as Aldous Huxley wrote in 1932 – ideas that would have only been believable if described ...

The vision of assembling new systems from molecular components—expressed by the brilliant French geneticists Francois Jacob and Jacques Monod in the early 1960s—set the stage for the dawn of synthetic ...

Although we're too old for chewing bubblegum and collecting TOPPS baseball cards, now and then my brother and I still mourn the loss of the cards we collected when we were little. We fantasize that ...