Animals as chemical factories
Horses bled for antivenom, crabs drained for endotoxin tests, and silkworms boiled for silk. Science can now replace these practices with synthetic alternatives — but we need to find ways to scale them.
Niko McCarty
Niko McCarty is the founding editor at Asimov Press, a magazine that focuses on scientific progress in biology.
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Every grain of rice
Words by Niko McCarty
As climate change threatens crop yields, we need a second Green Revolution – one that, this time, is driven by genetic engineering.