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Why Nothing Can Grow on Mars*
Making sense of progress in biotechnology. Visit our website: press.asimov.com
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Devon Stork
Tinker
What happens when an AI designs the chips needed to make its successors?
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Discovering an Antimalarial Drug in Mao’s China
Chinese scientists discovered artemisinin in 1971 as part of a secret military project that merged Eastern and Western medicine.
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Synthetic Origins
Michael Elowitz on the early years of synthetic biology and the programmability of living cells.
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March 2024

Beyond Steel Tanks
GLP-1 drugs could one day outsell iPhones, but there is not enough biomanufacturing capacity to make them. For solutions, we should look away from the…
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Elliot Hershberg
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Making Cells Young
In the laboratory, cellular reprogramming can reverse epigenetic damage and reset cells to a "young" state. Can we do the same for entire organisms?
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The Vector Zoo
Please note: The Arcade of Intentional Extinction will be closed for renovations between December 5th, 2126 and March 1st, 2127
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Alexandra Balwit
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Stories We’d Like to Publish
Ideas up for grabs.
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February 2024

Blocked Transmission
Fomites are inanimate objects that can transfer pathogens. What are the best materials and sprays to inhibit their spread?
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Fast Biology
Living cells are frenzied, crowded places. Numbers help us make sense of it.
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Niko McCarty
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Scaling Phage Therapy
What it will take to transform bacteriophages into a 21st-century medicine.
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Making the First Transgenic Ants
Engineered ants are helping to reveal the neuroscience of pheromone signaling.
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