On building synthetic organisms from scratch
3 Quarks Daily • 2/27/2026
Summary
Biology is undergoing a transformation as researchers shift from studying life as it evolves naturally to using computation and genome engineering to create new proteins and whole bacteria from scratch. Kate Adamala discusses this in Nature, highlighting the role of artificial-intelligence tools in designing biological components through an approach known as generative biology.
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