How to Design Flowers(asimov.press)
38 points by surprisetalk | 2 comments
Asimov Press podcast episode and transcript interviewing plant biologist Nick Desnoyer about engineering novel flowers, including a paintable petunia called Paintunia.
#synthetic-biology on Hacker News
4 stories tagged synthetic-biology, newest first.
It may soon be possible to create "mirror life"(economist.com)
43 points by amai | 56 comments
An Economist science article on the prospect of creating mirror life, organisms built from mirror-image molecules; the capture shows only a Cloudflare verification page.
For first time, a cell built from scratch grows and divides(quantamagazine.org)
892 points by defrost | 280 comments
Quanta Magazine article on scientists building a synthetic cell from nonliving materials that can grow and divide, a step toward creating life in the lab.
Mitochondria Are Alive(asimov.press)
599 points by mailyk | 371 comments
An Asimov Press opinion essay by Liyam Chitayat arguing that mitochondria should be considered alive, drawing on Lynn Margulis's endosymbiosis theory.