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During his PhD, an immunologist at a Harvard Medical School-affiliated research hospital followed what he understood to be best practice: recording his work in an electronic lab notebook (ELN). Then ...

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From why it was created to whether it’s alive, here’s what to know about SpudCell, the latest advance in synthetic biology.

In a quiet corner of Switzerland, researchers have stopped treating metal like something to be melted and poured, and started treating it like something that can be grown. Instead of blasting powders ...

Nearly two decades ago, four graduate students from MIT united around a shared idea. "We believed that programming cells would ultimately be more important than programming computers," says Jason ...

As a researcher, I still remember the discomfort I felt every time I had to sacrifice laboratory animals for an experiment. For decades, animals like mice, rats and pigs have been essential tools in ...

NASA’s upgraded Cold Atom Lab is turning the International Space Station into a frontier for quantum research, creating ultra ...

My favorite mundane task is aliquoting samples from our research participants. There's something almost meditative about the repetition of moving between each tiny tube representing a patient who ...