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On Fables and Nuanced Charts
While data visualizations appear to present information objectively, they are laden with assumptions. Some of those assumptions are held by the chart…
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Is That DNA Dangerous?
Synthetic DNA poses biosecurity risks that curated databases and screening algorithms can minimize. Here’s how they work now and how they could improve.
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Defense-Forward Biosecurity
DNA sequencing is becoming better and cheaper. So are AI tools that can decode the results. It’s time to build a genomic surveillance network that can…
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Day Zero Antivirals for Future Pandemics
Medicines modeled off the innate immune system have the best chance of protecting us during the next viral outbreak.
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Measuring the Black Death
Reports suggest that between 40 and 60 percent of the population died during the bubonic plague that swept through Europe in the mid-1300s. What…
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Before They Hatch
New technologies, such as in-ovo sexing, on-farm hatching, and in-ovo vaccination can make the poultry supply chain both better for animal welfare and…
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Raising Welfare for Lab Rodents
The science of animal welfare is exploding, offering new ways to improve conditions for millions of research animals a year.
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Meet the Flower Designer Who Built a Laboratory In His Home
Sebastian Cocioba, a vocal advocate for amateur science, built a home laboratory from spare parts and second-hand machines purchased on eBay.
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Where's the Synthetic Blood?
Synthetic blood cells could solve blood shortages, but only if technical challenges are surmounted and costs are slashed.
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Inside the Laboratory for Extraordinary Microbes
Cultivarium, a small nonprofit, is building tools to grow and engineer peculiar organisms—and then giving their discoveries away for free.
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Niko McCarty
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The First Patented G.M.O.
The Supreme Court case that built the biotechnology industry.
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Breaking the Speed Limit on Cell Division
The slow growth of model organisms delays biological research. Engineering cells to divide more quickly could speed it up.
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