Lisa Melton is a senior news editor at Nature Biotechnology.
How Gene-Edited Insects Are Providing Food, Fuel and Waste Disposal
Companies are recruiting black soldier flies and mealworms as a protein source in animal feed, fertilizer, biofuels and even as ingredients for burgers and shakes
‘Guerilla’ Artist Daisy Ginsberg Re-creates Scent of Extinct Flowers
Ginsberg collaborates with synthetic biologists to create eau de Leucadendron and her latest: artwork for insects
Body Blazes
How nicotine stops inflammation could lead to new drugs
Snoring Suspects
Free radicals may set off apnea's cardio dangers
Breathing with Hepatitis
Does exposure to a liver-inflaming virus prevent asthma?
Aching Atrophy
More than unpleasant, chronic pain shrinks the brain
Subduing Suppressors
Silencing certain immune cells could defeat disease
Count to 10
Frog eggs may crack the mystery of how anesthesia works
Womb Wars
New evidence that a mother¿s and father¿s ¿imprinted genes¿ battle to determine a baby¿s size
AGE Breakers
Rupturing the body's sugar-protein bonds might turn back the clock