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November 7th, 2011

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Selected Stories

Covering the life sciences inside and out

Peter and maria Hoey

Feature: Tinkering With Life

By Jef Akst

A decade's worth of engineering-infused biology

Personal Genome Project

Opinion: Evolving Engineering

By George M. Church

Exploiting the unique properties of living systems makes synthetic biologists better engineers.

J. Craig Venter Institute

Opinion: Synthesizing Life

By J. Craig Venter

Designing genomes from scratch will be the next revolution in biology.

The Nutshell

Daily News Roundup

Dreamstime.com, Keitikei

Prescription Drug Pollutants

By Cristina Luiggi

Are pharmaceuticals in the environment affecting human health?

17th century oil painting by Simon de Vlieger Wikimedia Commons, National Maritime Museum

Pioneers Make More Babies

By Jef Akst

Women of the French families that colonized Canada in the 17th and 18th centuries had more children and grandchildren than late comers to the region.

Glioblastoma multiformeWikimedia Commons, Sbrandner

Neurosurgery Resident Plagiarized Research

By Bob Grant

A physician doing a residency at the University of Virginia Medical Center was caught copying sections of text and an illustration in multiple NIH-funded papers.

Multimedia

Video, Slideshows, Infographics

Peter and maria hoey

Designing Genetic Circuits

Explore synthetic biology's seminal genetic circuits, which linked pairs of promoters and repressors in E. coli to control gene expression.

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