features original reporting and analysis by journalists who work for or contribute to The Atlantic, the BBC, CNN, Scientific American, Science, Nature, MIT Technology Review, The New Yorker, The New York Times, Wired, etc.
The founder is Jane Metcalfe, the former president and cofounder of Wired magazine, a legendary media company that chronicled the digital revolution from within, capturing its spirit while pioneering media, design, and the new web technology. proto.life covers the next stage of that revolution, as we use the tools of our digital age to understand and engineer our own biology.