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A Recipe for Cells
Species Have Blurry Boundaries
Great Leaps in Biological Theory
On the Role of Theory in Biology
A Brief History of Bioinformatics Software
That's All, for Now
Designing AI for Disruptive Science
Culture Shift
Why Lab Coats are White
The Quest for Oral GLP-1s
How Φ80 Infiltrates Research Labs
Why Are Viral Capsids Icosahedral?
Dead Reckoning
Working in Glass
The Legibility Problem
The Origins of Agar
Baseline Drift
Scent, In Silico
Making the Vortex Mixer
A Brief History of Xenopus
What It's Like To Be A Worm
Building Brains on a Computer
Mystery of the Head Activator
Solving the Electroporation Bottleneck
Inventing the Methods Section
Why Do Research Institutes Often Look the Same?
How Nature Became a 'Prestige' Journal
Clinic-in-the-Loop
Why the FDA Is Slow to Remove Drugs
A Most Important Mustard
The Penicillin Myth
How to See the Dead
Animalcules and Their Motors
What Makes an Experiment Beautiful?
The Power of Limit Thinking
An Antivenom Cocktail, Made by a Llama
Making the Electron Microscope
How Nigeria Accepted GMOs
Atomic-Scale Protein Filters
A Liver on Ice
A Shift from Animal Testing
Seeing Microbes from the Sky
The World’s Most Common Surgery
AI-Designed Phages
What We Find in the Sewers
Pausing Insect Activity
The Weight of a Cell
Leeches and the Legitimizing of Folk-Medicine
The Flower Designer
The Sunlight Budget of Earth
How to Scale Proteomics
Spinning Bacteria
Cable Bacteria are Living Batteries
What Makes a Mature Science
The First Weight Loss Drugs
The Uncertain Origins of Aspirin
A Night of Food Futurism
Life as Slime
Breaking the Speed Limit on Cell Division
AI-Designed Enzymes
The Eternal Life and Art of Maxwell Ardeen
Toxic Proteins for Drug Discovery
How A Cell Anticipates the Seasons
Scaling Phage Therapy
Before They Hatch
Reservoirs of Resistance
Keeping Ahead of Contagion
Model Organisms Are Not Static
Seven Wonders of Biology
Making the Centrifuge
A Brief History of GFP
A Brief History of GFP [Interview]
Eulogy to the Obits
Eulogy to the Obits [Interview]
Can Plants Really “See”?
The Magic of Fast Feedback Loops
Meet the Flower Designer Who Built a Laboratory In His Home
Recipe for a Cell
Making the First Transgenic Ants
On Prions and Protein Design [Interview]
On Prions and Protein Design
Inside the Laboratory for Extraordinary Microbes
Why Nothing Can Grow on Mars*
What Limits a Genome’s Size?
The Origins of Adjuvants
The Nobel Duel
The Nobel Duel [Interview]
What Limits a Cell’s Size?
A Brief History of the Miracle Bacterium
A Brief History of the Miracle Bacterium [Interview]
Meet the Humans Building AI Scientists
Driving Toward Nanopores
Healing My Family’s Future
Measuring the Black Death
Making a “Miracle” HIV Medicine
Evo 2 Can Design Entire Genomes
Barcoding Brains
A Search for Sick Animals
The Battle for Better Air
Behind the Story: The Battle for Better Air