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Meet the Flower Designer Who Built a Laboratory In His Home
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Sebastian Cocioba, a vocal advocate for amateur science, built a home laboratory from spare parts and second-hand machines purchased on eBay.
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Inside the Laboratory for Extraordinary Microbes
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Niko McCarty
Cultivarium, a small nonprofit, is building tools to grow and engineer peculiar organisms—and then giving their discoveries away for free.
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What Limits a Genome’s Size?
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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.
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Raising Welfare for Lab Rodents
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Xander Balwit
The science of animal welfare is exploding, offering new ways to improve conditions for millions of research animals a year.
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Breaking the Speed Limit on Cell Division
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Kamal Nahas
The slow growth of model organisms delays biological research. Engineering cells to divide more quickly could speed it up.
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Where's the Synthetic Blood?
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Keith Neeves
Synthetic blood cells could solve blood shortages, but only if technical challenges are surmounted and costs are slashed.
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