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Making the Vortex Mixer
The forgotten story of an invention found in every biology lab.
Feb 12
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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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January 2026
Metaphors for Biology: Time
A series of quantitative metaphors on the speeds of common events in molecular biology.
Jan 28
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Building Brains on a Computer
A roadmap for brain emulation models at the human scale.
Jan 26
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Mystery of the Head Activator
A biological puzzle that made one researcher and ruined another might never be solved.
Jan 18
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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.
Jan 15
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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.
Jan 8
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How Nature Became a 'Prestige' Journal
Since launching in 1869, Nature has evolved from a periodical offering commentary on pigeons to the prestige journal in science. But how did Nature…
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December 2025
Clinic-in-the-Loop
Clinical trials are engines for scientific discovery. Better drugs require not just more trials, but also improved data collection, to create…
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Why the FDA Is Slow to Remove Drugs
On the 90-year saga of oral phenylephrine.
Dec 1, 2025
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