In June, 2017, thousands of scientists from around the world attended the 65^th Annual Conference of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry in Indianapolis. One of the thousands of research projects on display at this year’s conference compared portable man-made sniffers to dog noses. Whose design won?

How does one build a structural material that withstands stress and fracture? The answer is to copy optimal designs from living systems because they far exceed man's ingenuity. Recently, an improved steel was developed by copying human bones.¹

A Chinese famine was so severe that 35 million lives perished between 1958 and 1962 due to the state's agricultural mistakes.¹ Interestingly, this tragedy highlights an unseen biological relationship between organisms and their environment over multiple generations.

In the early days of genetics, genes were thought to be solitary entities. Now it's well understood that genes operate in complex networks and that gene mutations can have multiple detrimental effects. A new study reconfirms mutations are a major roadblock for evolution.¹