Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb has floated the provocative idea that humans might themselves be alien‑made 'autonomous probes,' built through advanced synthetic biology rather than evolving entirely ...
Diagnostic tests for infectious diseases often involve identifying “alien” life – in the form of viral DNA – within a patient. Detecting life on Mars may also rely on DNA detection strategies but, ...
When scientist J. Craig Venter and his team announced in 2010 that they had created the first cell controlled by a fully synthetic genome, it marked a turning point in how scientists think about life.