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A Brief History of Bioinformatics Software

How computer scientists on the fringes of biology made sense of sequencing data. By Ella Watkins-Dulaney.

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Designing AI for Disruptive Science

Why scaling AI won’t automatically lead to paradigm shifts. By Alvin Djajadikerta. Read all our work at press.asimov.com.

Culture Shift

We tend to think of fermented foods as something humans invented and then chose to eat. But the evidence shows the opposite: fermented foods shaped human biology. By Rach

Why Lab Coats are White

How a blood-stained surgeon's frock evolved into a pristine symbol of modern science. By Donna Vatnick Read all our work at press.asimov.com.

The Quest for Oral GLP-1s

In a recent survey, three-in-four respondents said they would prefer a once‑daily oral pill over a weekly injection of GLP-1s. So why aren't there more oral options? By D

How Φ80 Infiltrates Research Labs

While some bacteriophages play vital roles in laboratory research, others are bent on sabotage. By Antoine Vigouroux. Read all our work, for free, at press.asimov.com.

Why Are Viral Capsids Icosahedral?

Viral capsid structure is a geometric packing problem under genetic constraints. By Ulkar Aghayeva Read all our work for free at press.asimov.com.

Dead Reckoning

Bioarchaeologists recently identified a murdered medieval royal. Now, they are trying to shed light on other ancient deaths. By David Brzostowicki Read all our work for

Working in Glass

How a twisted triangle of glass tubing helped democratize chemistry and build the modern laboratory. By Spencer Wright. Read all our work for free at press.asimov.com.

The Legibility Problem

What happens in a world where AIs make scientific discoveries that humans cannot understand? By Matthew Carter Read all our work at press.asimov.com.

The Origins of Agar

First introduced into laboratories in 1881, agar remains indispensable as a culture medium. By Corrado Nai. Read all our work, entirely for free, at press.asimov.com.

Baseline Drift

[Fiction] A eulogy to the reference human. By Eliomer H. Kaas. Read all our work, for free, at press.asimov.com.

Scent, In Silico

Once a primal instinct, olfaction is now being mapped, measured, and modeled by machines. By Taylor Rayne. Read all our work, entirely for free, at press.asimov.com.

Making the Vortex Mixer

The forgotten story of an invention found in every biology lab. By Ella Watkins-Dulaney. Read all our work, entirely for free, at press.asimov.com.

A Brief History of Xenopus

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 t

What It's Like To Be A Worm

Finding evidence of “sentience” is fraught, whether in a comatose patient, an animal, or a neural net. By Ralph Stefan Weir. Read all our articles for free at press.asim

Building Brains on a Computer

A roadmap for brain emulation models at the human scale. By Max Schons. Read all our work, entirely for free, at press.asimov.com.

Mystery of the Head Activator

A biological puzzle that made one researcher and ruined another might never be solved. By Brady Huggett. Read all of our articles, entirely for free, at press.asimov.com

Solving the Electroporation Bottleneck

Cultivarium, a focused research organization, has built a custom electroporator to engineer non-model organisms at scale. By Niko McCarty. Read all our work for free at