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Biology and medicine: how living systems work, and how we learn to measure, model, and treat them.

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Evolution, Genetics, Medicine, Neuroscience, Origins of life, Palaeontology, Synthetic biology
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  2. reviewIts Own Metaphor

    Philip Ball's How Life Works is the popular science book I wish every other one were: deep, clear, and honest about how we came to know what we know.

    Life sciencesGeneticsEmergenceComplex systemsPhilosophy of scienceSynthetic biology

    10 min read · 6 chapters

  3. noteHow CRISPR works

    Bacteria keep mug shots of the viruses that attacked them, and Cas9 uses them to cut. A 3D model to step through, from the discovery to the tool.

    GeneticsSynthetic biologyLife sciencesHistory of science

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