Why Lab Coats are White

How a blood-stained surgeon's frock evolved into a pristine symbol of modern science.

How Φ80 Infiltrates Research Labs

While some bacteriophages play vital roles in laboratory research, others are bent on sabotage.

What It's Like To Be A Worm

Ralph Stefan Weir

Finding evidence of “sentience” is fraught, whether in a comatose patient, an animal, or a neural net.

Building Brains on a Computer

A roadmap for brain emulation models at the human scale.

Solving the Electroporation Bottleneck

Cultivarium, a focused research organization, has built a custom electroporator to engineer non-model organisms at scale.

Why Do Research Institutes Often Look the Same?

Samuel Arbesman

Despite attempts at variation, many new research organizations are canalized into just a handful of forms.

Editor's Note: Issue 09

A look inside Issue 09.

Metaphors for Biology: Time

A series of quantitative metaphors on the speeds of common events in molecular biology.