The New Biology

How to Design Flowers — Nick Desnoyer

Nick Desnoyer, a plant biologist in Norwich, England, is designing and creating flowers that don’t exist anywhere in nature. In this interview, he reveals his next projec

How to Terraform Mars – Erika DeBenedictis

Pioneer Labs, a nonprofit research group, has engineered a microbe that eats Martian dirt and excretes bioplastic. It is the first step of their "five organism" plan to t

SpudCell will replicate continuously by 2030 | Kate Adamala

Chemists at the University of Minnesota, led by Kate Adamala, recently built a synthetic cell that eats, grows, and divides; purely by putting together molecules in the l

Biotech for Chickens — Robert Yaman

A dairy cow is worth $1,000 to $2,000 to a farmer, whereas a broiler chicken, raised for meat, generates just $4 of profit. Quantifying animals this way may feel uncomfor

Engineered Microbes Seen from the Sky — Yonatan Chemla on Hyperspectral Biology

Scientists have studied bacteria under microscopes for 400 years. But Yonatan Chemla, a postdoctoral fellow at MIT, has developed a technology that lets us see microbes f

The Bitter Lesson for Biology — Adam Green on Virtual Cells and Scaling Laws

Markov Biosciences, a startup in San Francisco, is betting that biology is about to have its GPT moment. In this episode, founder Adam Green explains the "bitter lesson"

Magnet-Controlled Medicines — Andrew York & Maria Ingaramo

Nonfiction Laboratories is building a technology called “magnetogenetics” that promises to control proteins inside the body — such as antibodies or enzymes — using small

Mark Budde - How to speed up wet-lab biology

Plasmidsaurus took plasmid sequencing from $600 to $15 and turned a "boring" service company idea into a hugely successful company serving 70,000+ scientists. In this epi