Three months ago, the first popular synthetic biology book was released ... Tweaking the code or making a new one entirely would bestow total invulnerability to viral infection.

One of the most influential people to link quantum physics and biology was Erwin Schrödinger himself, whose book What is Life? inspired, among others, DNA pioneers James Watson and Francis Crick.

One of the important things I helped develop ... Starting in 1990 or so, I started seriously looking at classical biology books, with a strong concentration on simple organisms.