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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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Alexandra Balwit
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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
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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The Promise of Gas Vesicles
Gas vesicles are protein shells that reflect soundwaves. They were first discovered in lake-dwelling microbes in Germany but now enable scientists to…
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Niko McCarty
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What Limits a Genome’s Size?
A tiny fern has a genome 50 times larger than a human’s. Energy and diffusion—not the nucleus volume—are the key bottlenecks to more expansive growth.
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Niko McCarty
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Driving Toward Nanopores
A nanopore sequencer is a tiny device that can read DNA with high accuracy. Its invention, made possible by merging hardware with machine learning…
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Stephen Malina
Origins of the Lab Mouse
How the mouse found its way from Victorian novelty to a biomedical mainstay.
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Alex Telford
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Announcing Our First Book: Origins
A collection of essays on scientific progress.
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Lessons on Starting a Magazine
Plus: Our first book, Origins, is now available.
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