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In 4,000 years, cataract surgery went from a crude procedure involving thorn instruments to a 20-minute operation with a 95 percent clinical success rate. The next step is broadening access.| Asimov Press
In 4,000 years, cataract surgery went from a crude procedure involving thorn instruments to a 20-minute operation with a 95 percent clinical success rate. The next step is broadening access.| Asimov Press
A new paper shows that a generative AI model can design viable bacteriophages.| www.asimov.press
Seasonal dormancy features in the life cycle of many insects. We can harness it for biological control, insect farming, and disease vector management at scale.| Asimov Press
While we’ve derived useful molecules from the leech, live leech therapy has been largely marginalized in the West. It is time we reevaluate why.| Asimov Press
A plant biologist’s quest to design and create 1,000 unique flowers, mostly in his spare time.| www.asimov.press
Our ancestors once spread their excess effluent on their fields; now we mine it for vital molecules.| www.asimov.press
A single E. coli bacterium weighs about one picogram, 60 million times less than a grain of sand. But how do we know?| www.asimov.press
Sunlight represents a seemingly endless source of largely untapped energy. Just how endless is it?| Asimov Press
A look inside Parallel Squared Technology Institute, a focused research organization trying to make analyzing a proteome as easy as DNA sequencing.| Asimov Press
By spinning bacteria in circles, scientists figured out how phage viruses time their escape from an infected cell.| Asimov Press
There are at least 10,000 known monogenic diseases. When attempting to cure them, how do clinicians decide which gene-therapy delivery method is best?| www.asimov.press
How a discovery in a Danish lake changed our understanding of biological communities and energy.| Asimov Press
Mechanism alone cannot make a science credible. It must describe its subject matter in terms of entities, properties, and rules.| Asimov Press
Long before Ozempic and Mounjaro, there were mitochondrial uncouplers. While deadly if not used with care, it might be time for them to make a comeback.| Asimov Press
The history of humanity’s pharmacopeia is often muddied by folklore. What can the origins of aspirin teach us about separating fact from fiction?| Asimov Press
Featuring articles on aspirin’s murky origins, scaling proteomics, and the history of fermentation.| www.asimov.press
A science fiction story brought to life through a pro-GMO dinner.| www.asimov.press
An interview with Ilan Gur, CEO of ARIA, about the organization’s efforts to build scientific waves.| www.asimov.press
Prominent scientists continue to claim life is “just” slime on a spinning rock. However, in an age when the rarity and fragility of life are increasingly evident, it’s time to retire the metaphor.| www.asimov.press
A selected encyclopedia of major gene-editing systems, together with illustrated diagrams.| www.asimov.press
A new AI model for biology, released today by Arc Institute and NVIDIA, can predict which mutations within a gene are likely to be harmful and even design small, eukaryotic genomes.| www.asimov.press
Researchers at the Institute for Protein Design have made a computationally-designed, multi-step enzyme.| www.asimov.press
The physical world is an intricate dance between matter, information, and energy. Recognizing that mitochondria are alive will open new horizons into how we learn about, and build with, biology.| www.asimov.press
Sebastian Cocioba, a vocal advocate for amateur science, built a home laboratory from spare parts and second-hand machines purchased on eBay.| www.asimov.press
Synthetic blood cells could solve blood shortages, but only if technical challenges are surmounted and costs are slashed.| www.asimov.press
GLP-1 drugs could one day outsell iPhones, but there is not enough biomanufacturing capacity to make them. For solutions, we should look away from the factory.| www.asimov.press
