Raising Welfare for Lab Rodents

Sebastian Cocioba, a vocal advocate for amateur science, built a home laboratory from spare parts and second-hand machines purchased on eBay.

Cultivarium, a small nonprofit, is building tools to grow and engineer peculiar organisms—and then giving their discoveries away for free.

A tiny fern has a genome 50 times larger than a human’s. Energy and diffusion—not the nucleus volume—are the key bottlenecks to more expansive growth.

The science of animal welfare is exploding, offering new ways to improve conditions for millions of research animals a year.

The slow growth of model organisms delays biological research. Engineering cells to divide more quickly could speed it up.

Synthetic blood cells could solve blood shortages, but only if technical challenges are surmounted and costs are slashed.