Grow by Ginkgo | A Magazine About Synthetic Biology

Issue No. 2

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Wings of Desire

How birds became beautiful and art got weird.

The Beauty Issue

by Dean Kissick

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Futures

by Claire L. Evans

Beyond Smart Rocks

It’s time to reimagine what a computer could be.

Reportage

by Kaitlin Sullivan

Can we help scorched soil heal itself in the wake of supersized wildfires?

Futures

The Loneliest Creature in the World

Meet Greta, the first mammoth-elephant hybrid.

Personal Essay

by Sudeep Agarwala

The Food of Exiles

dialogue

Dialogue

by Christina Agapakis

Is DNA Hardware or Software?

A conversation with Michael Levin about Xenobots, the world’s first living robots.

Dialogue

The Lab Philosopher

by Christina Agapakis

The Nature Issue

Moving the Needle

by Christina Agapakis

more

Can biotech interventions prevent the mass extinction of coral reefs?

How living medicines bridge the gap between pharmacology and nature.

Why is it so hard to make a convincing cheese replacement?

Zbiotics wants to change your drinking habits and your attitude toward GMOs.

Reportage

Redesigning the Banana

Voices

by Zuri Sullivan et al.

Four scientists reflect on their personal experience of a changing world.

People

by Jill Neimark

The Cell Conductor

Karmella Haynes is on a mission to revolutionize cancer treatment.

nature

The Nature Issue

by Andy Gonzalez

After the Metabiome

What if everything around you was alive?

The Nature Issue

The Nature of Nature

by Rowan Jacobsen

The Nature Issue

Genetic Sputniks