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The Column
Issue 10

AI Won't Automatically Accelerate Clinical Trials

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Ruxandra Teslo
A critique of a snippet from Dario Amodei and Dwarkesh Patel’s recent interview.
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Long Read
Issue 09

A Visual Guide to DNA Sequencing

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Evan DeTurk
How to “read” nucleic acids, from Sanger to nanopores.
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Long Read
Issue 09

The Origins of Agar

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Corrado Nai
First introduced into laboratories in 1881, agar remains indispensable as a culture medium.
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Fiction
Issue 09

Baseline Drift

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Eliomer H. Kaas
A eulogy to the reference human.
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The Column
Issue 09

Making the Vortex Mixer

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Ella Watkins-Dulaney
The forgotten story of an invention found in every biology lab.
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The Column
Issue 09

A Brief History of Xenopus

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Matt Lubin
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.
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