On the Assembly of Things

And in other news:
This article was brought to my attention by a grad student in MIT’s Endy lab as a (cynically) “real-world application” of synthetic biology:
http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/2007/1872191.htm
That’s right, scientists are coaxing bacteria into manufacturing beer dresses. N.B. the convergence of the bleeding-edge technical and the Primitive in the photo of haute couture swampthing…
Now, I don’t [...]

In response to a question Chris asked earlier re: the convergences and divergences of synthetic biology and nanotechnology:
This is a question I’ve been puzzling over for a while. At first gloss, the most obvious overlap between the two fields is that they have generated a lot of hype in the last few years, and [...]