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The Origins of Agar
First introduced into laboratories in 1881, agar remains indispensable as a culture medium.
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Baseline Drift
A eulogy to the reference human.
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Scent, In Silico
Once a primal instinct, olfaction is now being mapped, measured, and modeled by machines.
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Making the Vortex Mixer
The forgotten story of an invention found in every biology lab.
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A Brief History of Xenopus
From early experiments on fertility and embryonic development to becoming the first cloned eukaryote from an adult cell, Xenopus frogs have had an…
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What It's Like To Be A Worm
Finding evidence of “sentience” is fraught, whether in a comatose patient, an animal, or a neural net.
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Metaphors for Biology: Time
A series of quantitative metaphors on the speeds of common events in molecular biology.
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Building Brains on a Computer
A roadmap for brain emulation models at the human scale.
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Mystery of the Head Activator
A biological puzzle that made one researcher and ruined another might never be solved.
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Solving the Electroporation Bottleneck
Cultivarium, a focused research organization, has built a custom electroporator to engineer non-model organisms at scale.
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Inventing the Methods Section
What the evolution of scientific methods says about their future.
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Why Do Research Institutes Often Look the Same?
Despite attempts at variation, many new research organizations are canalized into just a handful of forms.
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