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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.

"Future Flesh" is squatting on your plate. Are you nervous? Stab it with a fork. Sniff it. Bite! Chew, swallow. Congratulations!

This past May, I joined some 14,000 of my closest friends at the international biotechnology conference, BIO 2009, in Atlanta, Georgia. The gossip started immediately: What happened to the other 6,000 of us that came last year? Is biotech in trouble?