synthetic-biology

AI models like AlphaFold, RFdiffusion, and Evo now design proteins and DNA sequences that never existed in nature. Here's how they work and where they fall short.

How scientists engineer entire organisms with synthetic genomes creating biological machines for medicine and industry

A photosynthesising human sounds like a way to escape grocery bills — but the math says even a perfectly solar-powered human couldn't survive on sunlight alone. Here's why.