Sophia Roosth
Searching for life in 3-billion-year-old fossils: Will we know it when we see it?
Geologists examining fossils in rocks help us to gain purchase on the conundrum of what constitutes life by identifying its ...
Queer theory and biology: Should ‘relatedness’ be defined only by blood and genes?
Biological taxonomy, the study and sorting of how different organisms are related to one another, has for centuries incorporated novelty ...
Questions abound on synthetic biology: Is it creating ‘new life’ or just part of biotechnology’s toolkit?
[Editor's note: Sophia Roosth, a historian of science at Harvard University, talks about her new book on synthetic biology: Synthetic: How ...