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Favela Students to Control Mars Mission
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil’s flashiest city, is fringed with expansive sandy beaches, accentuated by towering mountains, and marked by some of the country’s most opulent neighborhoods. And yet, the...
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Media and Education Merge in Latest Cousteau Venture
The modern environmental movement means many things to many people, but to Philippe Cousteau, it still doesn’t mean enough. As the heir to one of the most recognizable family names in oceanography and...
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Why Country Rules the Airwaves: Chronicling the Genre’s Continuing Moment
The brief walk from dressing room 9 to the stage of Nashville’s Grand Ole Opry takes about 20 seconds, but passes decades of country music’s most prized heritage. There’s the photo of Dolly Parton with...
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The Brave New World of DNA Synthesis
Over the last several decades, DNA – the genetic material of life as we know it – has completed a remarkable scientific cycle. In 1953, it was a mysterious blur on an X-ray diffractogram. By the 1970s,...
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Cleaner Living Through Smarter Microbiology
Petroleum-derived products undergo a complicated, energy intensive journey from the oil deposits deep underground to our homes, cars, and clothing. “Our lifestyle is very difficult on the environment,”...
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Plug and Play with DNA Constructs
DNA production is becoming cheaper than ever, propelled down a Moore’s law curve by maturing technologies and cheaper reagents. This new biosynthetic industry allows researchers to order up a...
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Short and Sweet: Why Modern Molecular Biology Needs Oligos
DNA sequencing and synthesis are two sides of the same coin, the “read” and “write” functions of genetic material. The field and its requisite technology took off in the 1990s with the Human Genome...
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Assembling a Genome, Piece by Piece
Metabolic pathways are multi-step endeavors that process one molecule to another, all in the service of cellular health. But not every intermediate waypoint is always seen; they may be consumed quickly...
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Are Microbes the Taste-Makers of the Future?
On its journey from plant to ice cream cone, vanilla travels thousands of miles. Shady fields of waist-high vines in Madagascar, the South Pacific, or Latin America produce valuable fruit, which is...
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Mobilizing the Planet’s Genetic Diversity with Synthetic Biology
1,4-Butanediol isn’t exactly the flashiest product on the market: with a four-carbon chain bounded by alcohol groups, the thick, colorless liquid is one of those “industrial chemicals” that makes the...
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