Graffiti and Poetry in a Synthetic Genome

Last week, the world learned of the first living organism that carries a synthetic genome. That that same genome contains the nucleic equivalents of both graffiti and poetry is less known…

Unless you’ve been avoiding science news for over a week, you’ve been bombarded by news of the creation of the first ‘synthetic cell’ by scientists [...]

Industrial Biology

I came across a beautiful set of images created by German doctor / scientist / artist Fritz Kahn (1888 – 1968).  In many of these images, he places the human body in an industrial context.  The resulting combinations of technology and biology have a retro-futuristic feel to them, but are fare more than [...]