Adam Bluestein

This lucid and nicely shot and edited online video from KQED in San Francisco documents a cool range of synthetic biology projects taking place in academic and commercial settings on the West Coast. Drew Endy, Jay Keasling, Jeff Tabor, and others make appearances. The bacterial photography that Tabor demonstrates is a refinement of work he […]

From the newly “warm” Spitzer infrared satellite, a reminder that the universe is an ongoing creation, far from done with its inscrutable business. The images above show, clockwise from left, a cloud bursting with stars in the Cygnus region of the Milky Way galaxy, revealing young stars “tucked in dusty nests” in the poetic language […]

Were you not among the select few invited (list is in the link below) to attend the Edge Master Class called “A Short Course on Synthetic Genomics,” in Silicon Valley last week and organized by science super-book agent John Brockman, there’s six hours of it here on video. The presenters are Harvard’s George Church and […]