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When the sequence of the human genome was declared essentially complete in 2003, all biologists (except perhaps Craig Venter) heaved a sigh of gladness that the data were all on one website, publicly available, well-annotated and carefully cross-linked.

The December 2009 press release created quite a stir: Organovo, a San Diego-based company that specializes in regenerative medicine announced a new $200,000 bioprinter that prints artificial organs using inkjet technology.

I didn’t recognize her up on that stripper pole on the beach amid all this Spring Break mayhem.

Color blindness affects some eight percent of males, and the most common form is the inability to distinguish between red and green.

Swine Flu. Spanish Flu. SARS. Almost every year, it seems, there is a new virus to watch out for.

One of the ideas I champion is that DNA is a programming language for living things. By stringing DNA bases together in different ways, one gets different organisms. With one sequence, a bacterium is the result. With another, a butterfly.

A movement is growing quietly, steadily, and with great speed. In basements, attics, garages, and living rooms, amateurs and professionals alike are moving steadily towards disparate though unified goals.

In one of the most entertaining episodes ever, the hit TV series The Simpsons recreated the movie Planet of the Apes as a musical.

In the first few panels of Drew Endy’s “Adventures in Synthetic Biology” comics you see a young student with laboratory goggles grabbing Buddy-the-Lifeform.

Mini-Me would sooner kick Mike Tyson in the shin than I would challenge Cory Doctorow to an intellectual bitchslapfest.