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Let me show you how to make your own glowing plant

Let me show you how to make your own glowing plant

Kyle Taylor, a founder of Glowing Plant, splices firefly genes into plants and wants to demystify the process by showing you how to do it at home

Opinion

The coolest biology is under the microscope

Life

The coolest biology is under the microscope

CultureLab

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Eat and slim

Regulars

Are RNA fragments making gene tweaks in descendants?

Life

Are RNA fragments making gene tweaks in descendants?

News

Wire up hives to keep bees happy and healthy

Life

Wire up hives to keep bees happy and healthy

News

The white walker: Longest horse trek crosses icy lake

Earth

The white walker: Longest horse trek crosses icy lake

Regulars

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Earth

Synthetic biology can supplement traditional farmers

Leader

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Life

Parental guidance advised over virtual embryos

Leader

Killing with kindness: Conservation's cautionary tale

Life

Killing with kindness: Conservation's cautionary tale

Features

Pharma to fork: How we'll swallow synthetic biology

Life

Pharma to fork: How we'll swallow synthetic biology

Our best antimalarial drug comes from a plant, but now modified microbes are brewing it in a factory. Synthetic biology has got real – and food may be next

Features

DNA nanobots deliver drugs in living cockroaches

News

Life

Meet your unborn child – before it's even conceived

News

Last Word

Echo dislocation

Regulars

Earth

We're offering $2m for the best ocean acidity mapping

Opinion

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