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Vol. CLV, Issue 4
Whitman news since 1896

Whitman Wire

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Whitman Wire

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Programmable Plants? Engineering Plant Growth Control Systems

Alicia Buchter, Science & Environment Editor October 19, 2023

Plant-based burgers that bleed, microbes that produce unnaturally strong spider silk, face masks with a CRISPR sensor for wearable detection of SARS-CoV-2 and plants that can be programmed like computers:...

Synthetic Biology will bring both exciting changes and compelling responsibilites for human race

Alfredo Villaseñor September 15, 2011
How would you design nature?—It's a question almost too grand for any one of us to answer adequately. But know that designing nature is something we humans have been working up to ever since we began to throw down our spears to take up the sedentary life of the sickle, hoe and cattle prod.
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