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Sophia Roosth. Synthetic: How Life Got Made. University of Chicago Press, 2017. 256 pp. $35. Left scrawled on American physicist Richard Feynman’s blackboard at the time of his death in 1988 was one of the most resonant epitaphs for any scientist: “What I cannot create, I do not understand.” That’s all very well for a physicist, who can re-create even the early moments of the Big Bang in a particle collider. But if Feynman is right, it doesn’t bode well for biologists.

Constructing Life | Science History Institute About Magazine Podcasts Events Museum Hours: Wednesday–Saturday, 10am–5pm Stories Magazine Distillations magazine Unexpected Stories from Science’s Past Arts & Culture Early Science & Alchemy Environment & Nature Health & Medicine Inventions & Discoveries People & Politics July 31, 2018 Inventions & Discoveries Constructing Life A historian of science goes searching for meaning in synthetic life. by Philip Ball Sugababe , a collaboration between artist Diemut Strebe and MIT scientists, including synthetic biology pioneer George Church and chemical

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