Changing the Language of Nature
Farren Isaacs’ Recoding of the Genetic Code and the Future of GMOs Yale Professor Farren Isaacs’ big moment on late night TV came on October 24, 2013. After a night out with the lab celebrating their...
Armor, Heal Thyself
How NASA and Michigan chemists teamed up to make a material that bleeds, and heals In the recent Matt Damon film, The Martian, the astronauts repeatedly find themselves in situations where only a thin wall...
Genesis & Evolution in a Test Tube
Designing and Evolving New Proteins in the Hecht Lab Basically everything life does — photosynthesis, metabolism, vision, neural impulses, hormonal signaling, DNA replication — is mediated, at the...
Crystalline Gills — For Humans?
Imagine a future astronaut, hazmat worker, or deep-sea diver, needing to breathe air in a hazardous or even liquid environment. With a few grains of a new material from a Danish lab, they could breathe safely...
Making Friends With Your Transplants
A little over ten years ago, Professor Jeff Schwartz from the Chemistry department decided to redirect his studies. It all began when, in the course of a medical examination, he had been told that...