Archive - De Novo

April 2025

Fighting malaria with gene drives: an interview with Dr. Michael Santos

Malaria is one of humanity’s biggest foes, killing an average of 600,000 people per year (mostly African children).

Apr 25 •

March 2025

Book Review: The Nobel Duel

A cautionary tale about competition in science

Mar 30 •

Preserving the memory, and the cells, of the best cat ever

Mar 8 •

December 2024

Green Goo (Republished)

Synthetic biology, mirror life, and threats to global ecosystems

Dec 12, 2024 •

Sex development, puberty, and transgender identity

Reproductive Biology for for Politicians and Voters, Part 2A

Dec 10, 2024 •

November 2024

Reproductive Biology for Politicians and Voters, Part 1

Embryos, IVF, and fetal development

Nov 11, 2024 •

October 2024

This is why we can't have nice things

scRNAseq data de-anonymization

Oct 6, 2024 •

September 2024

SeqVerify: peace of mind for genome engineers

Generating gene-edited cell lines has never been easier — over the last decade, a huge proliferation of tools (CRISPR, base editing, prime editing…

Sep 18, 2024 •

Biology needs better visualizations

Who will be our Bartosz Ciechanowski?

Sep 2, 2024 •

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