Tabitha M. Powledge discusses coverage of two papers on genetic recoding, a technique that moves beyond modifying the genome and into creating entirely new organisms: "The technique’s virtues have been demonstrated so far only in the lab. But there are giddy speculations about the potential for oil-spill cleanup microbes that could be dismissed from the planet the moment their work was done." Also, what the Disneyland outbreak means for the anti-vaccine movement.
January 31, 2015
