The Aristotelian ideas of nature (physis) and technology (techné) are taken as a starting point for understanding what it would mean for technology to be truly living. Heidegger's critique of the conflation of scientific and technological thinking in the current era is accepted as demonstrating that humanity does not have a deep enough appreciation of the nature of life to harness its essence s...

Advances in DNA sequencing and synthesis technologies in the twenty-first century are now making it possible to build large-scale pipelines for engineering plant natural product pathways into heterologous production species using synthetic biology approaches. The ability to decode the chemical potential of plants by sequencing their transcriptomes and/or genomes and to then use this information...

Pioneering companies in sectors ranging from wire to plastic films and planned residential communities have already demonstrated that today's environmental challenges hold many profit-enhancing opportunities. The late twentieth century witnessed two great intellectual shifts: the fall of communism, with the apparent triumph of market economics; and the emergence, in a rapidly growing number of ...

This Special Issue of Nanomaterials highlights innovative work from around the world focused on harnessing the physical, chemical and topological properties of nucleic acids. [...].

Theoretically, harnessing the brain's own endogenous plasticity mechanisms could serve to alter both internal states and external behavior in a therapeutic manner.