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A Brief History of Bioinformatics Software
How computer scientists on the fringes of biology made sense of sequencing data. By Ella Watkins-Dulaney.
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Designing AI for Disruptive Science
Why scaling AI won’t automatically lead to paradigm shifts. By Alvin Djajadikerta.Read all our work at press.asimov.com.
Culture Shift
We tend to think of fermented foods as something humans invented and then chose to eat. But the evidence shows the opposite: fermented foods shaped human biology. By Rachel Dutton.Read all our work…
Why Lab Coats are White
How a blood-stained surgeon's frock evolved into a pristine symbol of modern science. By Donna VatnickRead all our work at press.asimov.com.
The Quest for Oral GLP-1s
In a recent survey, three-in-four respondents said they would prefer a once‑daily oral pill over a weekly injection of GLP-1s. So why aren't there more oral options? By David S. KimRead all our work,…
How Φ80 Infiltrates Research Labs
While some bacteriophages play vital roles in laboratory research, others are bent on sabotage. By Antoine Vigouroux.Read all our work, for free, at press.asimov.com.
Why Are Viral Capsids Icosahedral?
Viral capsid structure is a geometric packing problem under genetic constraints. By Ulkar AghayevaRead all our work for free at press.asimov.com.
Dead Reckoning
Bioarchaeologists recently identified a murdered medieval royal. Now, they are trying to shed light on other ancient deaths. By David BrzostowickiRead all our work for free at press.asimov.com.
Working in Glass
How a twisted triangle of glass tubing helped democratize chemistry and build the modern laboratory. By Spencer Wright.Read all our work for free at press.asimov.com.
The Legibility Problem
What happens in a world where AIs make scientific discoveries that humans cannot understand? By Matthew CarterRead all our work at press.asimov.com.
The Origins of Agar
First introduced into laboratories in 1881, agar remains indispensable as a culture medium. By Corrado Nai.Read all our work, entirely for free, at press.asimov.com.
Baseline Drift
[Fiction] A eulogy to the reference human. By Eliomer H. Kaas.Read all our work, for free, at press.asimov.com.
Scent, In Silico
Once a primal instinct, olfaction is now being mapped, measured, and modeled by machines. By Taylor Rayne.Read all our work, entirely for free, at press.asimov.com.
Making the Vortex Mixer
The forgotten story of an invention found in every biology lab. By Ella Watkins-Dulaney.Read all our work, entirely for free, at press.asimov.com.
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 outsized influence on the life sciences. By Matt…
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. By Ralph Stefan Weir.Read all our articles for free at press.asimov.com.
Building Brains on a Computer
A roadmap for brain emulation models at the human scale. By Max Schons.Read all our work, entirely for free, at press.asimov.com.
Mystery of the Head Activator
A biological puzzle that made one researcher and ruined another might never be solved. By Brady Huggett.Read all of our articles, entirely for free, at press.asimov.com.
Solving the Electroporation Bottleneck
Cultivarium, a focused research organization, has built a custom electroporator to engineer non-model organisms at scale. By Niko McCarty.Read all our work for free at press.asimov.com.
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