Peter Forbes
Peter Forbes writes mainly on biology, medicine and things nano. His book Dazzled and Deceived: Mimicry and Camouflage (Yale) won the 2011 Warwick Prize for Writing
Articles by Peter Forbes
Rethinking the origins of life
Groundbreaking new research looks set to overturn our understanding of the origins of life on Earth
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Virtuous cycles
Breakthroughs in the use of bacteria are helping us to build a new green economy.
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How to build an animal
DNA provides the blueprint for our bodies, but how are we actually constructed? And what happens when it all goes wrong?
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Nature’s nanomachines
To solve the big problems of Covid-19 and the climate crisis, we need to think small.
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Engineering nature
From pandemics to climate change, new techniques in chemistry use the power of nature to fight existential challenges
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What price a miracle?
Breakthroughs in gene therapy have been undermined by extortionate charges. But Big Pharma’s stranglehold could be ending.
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Turning the phage: a new front in the war on antibiotic resistance
Long overlooked in the West, could bacteriophages be the secret weapon in tackling our growing resistance to antibiotics?
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What ancient DNA says about us
David Reich’s pioneering study of ancient DNA is set to revolutionise our ideas about human migration and identity.
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