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Making the Modern Laboratory (New Book!)
Our third book, ‘Making the Modern Laboratory’, is a lavishly illustrated hardcover about the laboratory, and how (nearly) everything in it came to be…
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Species Have Blurry Boundaries
A bacterium can acquire new genes without acquiring a new name, or acquire a new name without changing whatsoever.
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How to Design Flowers — Nick Desnoyer
A plant biologist in England is using genetic engineering, breeding, and pathogens to design and create flowers that exist nowhere else on Earth.
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Mitochondria Are Alive
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The Penicillin Myth
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That’s All, for Now
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A Visual Guide to DNA Sequencing
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A Brief History of Lab Notebooks
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A third installment of articles that we’d like to publish across medicine, biosecurity, the environment, animal welfare and more.
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Great Leaps in Biological Theory
Two of biology’s greatest theories completely predate direct experimental evidence. Tracing their origins could help us understand how to make the next…
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On the Role of Theory in Biology
Biology is often seen as an experimental science, with theory serving to generalize patterns from empirical data. But history reveals that theory plays…
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How to Terraform Mars — Erika DeBenedictis of Pioneer Labs
Pioneer Labs has made its first microbe capable of growing in simulated Martian soil and making building materials.
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"SpudCell will replicate continuously by 2030" | Kate Adamala
Our first podcast!
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Asimov Press is Back
We are returning with a renewed focus on original reporting, investigations, and thesis-driven philanthropy.
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A Brief History of Lab Notebooks
How experimental recordings have changed, from the Renaissance through today.
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