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Milan Mrksich, Henry Wade Rogers Professor of Biomedical Engineering and professor of chemistry and of cell and molecular biology, is adapting his mass spectrometry technology to the pharmaceutical ...

Yizhi “Patrick” Cai is coordinating a global effort to write a complete synthetic yeast genome. If he succeeds, the resulting cell will be the artificial life most closely related to humans to date.