Chemical libraries are collections of molecules that are synthesized with the aim that they represent a given fraction of the theoretically possible chemical compounds that have yet been made.

We introduce a method of in vitro recombination or “DNA shuffling” to generate libraries of evolved enzymes. The approach relies on the ordering, trimming, and joining of randomly cleaved parental DNA ...

A young telephone company operator finds herself in the dark underbelly of the Me Decade in Claire Oshetsky’s “Evil Genius.” By Hamilton Cain A new study by the novelist and scholar Namwali Serpell ...