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cancer cells, the dye (information) will travel quickly through all the healthy cells. Little, if any, dye will cross into the cancer cells. When the dye is dropped into the middle of the cancer cells, it does not spread. The walls of a healthy cell are a means of transporting information. But the walls of cancer cells are boundaries that block it.

make neither the amino acid methionine nor biotin, a B vitamin. The other strain he picked couldn’t make the amino acids threonine and proline. Lederberg put the bacteria in a broth he stocked with all four compounds so that the mutant microbes could grow and multiply. They mingled in the broth for a few weeks, with plenty of opportunity for hypoth

They appear to want some of the same things most of us want: recognition from their peers and communities and better lives for the people they care about. Being

One after another, the greatest figures in physics seemed to develop an unexpected late-career interest in the mystery of life itself, even taking abrupt shifts toward the formal study of biology.

Jeff Karp is a scientist inspired by elegance … and jellyfish. As an associate professor at Harvard Medical School, Karp’s research focuses on using bio-inspiration—inspiration from nature—to develop new solutions for all types of medical challenges. His self-named Karp Lab has developed innovations such as a device inspired by jellyfish tentacles

All of us shapeshifters, eternally mutating.

interference (RNAi).

Run Parallel Experiments

starting with trillions of random RNA sequences, selecting for ligase activity and then amplifying,