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	Title	Pub. Date	Duration
	A Brief History of Bioinformatics Software	07 Apr 2026	00:15:19
How computer scientists on the fringes of biology made sense of sequencing data. By Ella Watkins-Dulaney.
	That's All, for Now	25 Mar 2026	00:05:57
Asimov Press is pausing.
	Designing AI for Disruptive Science	23 Mar 2026	00:26:25
Why scaling AI won’t automatically lead to paradigm shifts. By Alvin Djajadikerta. Read all our work at press.asimov.com.
	Culture Shift	20 Mar 2026	00:22:28
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 Rachel Dutton. Read all our work at press.asimov.com.
	Why Lab Coats are White	18 Mar 2026	00:19:39
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	16 Mar 2026	00:22:09
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 David S. Kim Read all our work, for free, at press.asimov.com.
	How Φ80 Infiltrates Research Labs	13 Mar 2026	00:27:56
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?	09 Mar 2026	00:27:50
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	06 Mar 2026	00:38:54
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 free at press.asimov.com.
	Working in Glass	04 Mar 2026	00:20:05
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	02 Mar 2026	00:13:27
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	22 Feb 2026	00:20:12
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	19 Feb 2026	00:10:49
[Fiction] A eulogy to the reference human. By Eliomer H. Kaas. Read all our work, for free, at press.asimov.com.
	Scent, In Silico	16 Feb 2026	00:33:18
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	12 Feb 2026	00:09:00
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	08 Feb 2026	00:20:39
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. By Matt Lubin. Read all articles, for free, by visiting press.asimov.com.
	What It's Like To Be A Worm	01 Feb 2026	00:39:45
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.asimov.com.
	Building Brains on a Computer	26 Jan 2026	00:33:00
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	18 Jan 2026	00:36:42
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	15 Jan 2026	00:16:20
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 press.asimov.com.
	Inventing the Methods Section	12 Jan 2026	00:42:51
What the evolution of scientific methods says about their future. By Andrew Hunt. Read all our work for free at press.asimov.com.
	Why Do Research Institutes Often Look the Same?	08 Jan 2026	00:11:11
Despite attempts at variation, many new research organizations are canalized into just a handful of forms. By Sam Arbesman. Read all our work, entirely for free, by visiting press.asimov.com.
	How Nature Became a 'Prestige' Journal	05 Jan 2026	00:38:03
Since launching in 1869, Nature has evolved from a periodical offering commentary on pigeons to the prestige journal in science. But how did Nature build its reputation, and can it last? By Robert Reason. Read all of our work, entirely for free, at press.asimov.com.
	Clinic-in-the-Loop	29 Dec 2025	00:16:05
Clinical trials are engines for scientific discovery. Better drugs require not just more trials, but also improved data collection, to create therapeutic feedback loops. By Ruxandra Teslo. Read all our work, for free, at press.asimov.com.
	Why the FDA Is Slow to Remove Drugs	01 Dec 2025	00:38:16
On the 90-year saga of oral phenylephrine. By Michael DePeau-Wilson. Read all articles from Asimov Press, for free, by visiting press.asimov.com.
	A Most Important Mustard	26 Nov 2025	00:11:38
On the origins of Arabidopsis thaliana, the premier model for plant biology. By Xander Balwit. Read all of our articles for free at press.asimov.com.
	The Penicillin Myth	24 Nov 2025	00:37:48
Competing theories seek to explain inconsistencies surrounding Alexander Fleming’s famed discovery. By Kevin Blake. Read all of our work for free at press.asimov.com.
	How to See the Dead	17 Nov 2025	00:31:40
A retinal implant designer must decide if translating mourning into light is progress or a refusal to let go. By Spencer Nitkey. Read all of our articles, entirely for free, at press.asimov.com.
	Animalcules and Their Motors	13 Nov 2025	00:14:56
Advances in cryo-electron microscopy are revealing the molecular intricacies of cell movement. By Niko McCarty. Read all of our articles, entirely for free, at press.asimov.com.
	What Makes an Experiment Beautiful?	10 Nov 2025	00:32:00
A beautiful experiment is not just a reflection of human ingenuity but also efficient science. Written by Ulkar Aghayeva. Read all of our articles, entirely for free, at press.asimov.com.
	The Power of Limit Thinking	06 Nov 2025	00:15:10
To make things better, first prove how good they can possibly be. By David Jordan. Read every article, for free, at press.asimov.com.
	An Antivenom Cocktail, Made by a Llama	30 Oct 2025	00:19:16
A new broad-coverage antivenom, made by mixing eight different nanobodies, protects mice against snakebites from 17 of 18 deadly species in Africa. By Xander Balwit. Read all of our stories for free at press.asimov.com.
	Making the Electron Microscope	26 Oct 2025	00:45:09
In a little over a century, the electron microscope evolved from a tool barely capable of resolving virus particles into one able to capture atomic detail. By Smrithi Sunil. Read every article from Asimov Press by visiting press.asimov.com.
	How Nigeria Accepted GMOs	23 Oct 2025	00:25:29
Genetically modified crops are finding a foothold in the Global South, producing some unlikely leaders in agritech. By Dr. Alex Wakeman. Read every article, for free, at press.asimov.com.
	Atomic-Scale Protein Filters	15 Oct 2025	00:12:27
How aquaporin and potassium channels filter hundreds of millions of water molecules or ions each second, by positioning the correct amino acid in the perfect place. By Niko McCarty. Read every essay from Asimov Press by visiting press.asimov.com
	A Liver on Ice	12 Oct 2025	00:58:22
How a liver goes from a brain-dead donor to a living recipient. By Donna Vatnick. Read every article from Asimov Press, for free, at press.asimov.com.
	A Shift from Animal Testing	06 Oct 2025	00:37:28
There has been a push toward animal-free alternatives in scientific research. But the success of such alternatives hinges upon whether and where they can outperform standard animal models. By Celia Ford. Read all Asimov Press articles for free by visiting press.asimov.com.
	Seeing Microbes from the Sky	01 Oct 2025	00:13:34
Biotechnology needs more and better transducers. A column by Niko McCarty. Read all our articles by visiting press.asimov.com.
	The World’s Most Common Surgery	29 Sep 2025	00:30:54
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. By Dr. Sangeetha Aravinda Visit press.asimov.com to read all of our articles and subscribe.
	AI-Designed Phages	17 Sep 2025	00:18:31
A new paper from Arc Institute shows that a generative AI model can be used to design viable bacteriophages. By Niko McCarty. Read all of our work for free at press.asimov.com.
	What We Find in the Sewers	25 Aug 2025	01:00:55
Our ancestors once spread their excess effluent on their fields; now we mine it for vital molecules. By Calum Drysdale. Visit press.asimov.com to read all articles.
	Pausing Insect Activity	21 Aug 2025	00:41:54
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. By Ulkar Aghayeva. Read every article from Asimov Press by visiting press.asimov.com.
	The Weight of a Cell	18 Aug 2025	00:09:55
A single yeast cell weighs about one million times less than a grain of sand. But how do we know this? By Niko McCarty. Visit press.asimov.com to read all of our articles for free.
	Leeches and the Legitimizing of Folk-Medicine	14 Aug 2025	00:24:24
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. By Khushi Mittal & Xander Balwit. Read every article by visiting press.asimov.com.
	The Flower Designer	11 Aug 2025	00:12:47
A plant biologist’s quest to design and create 1,000 unique flowers, mostly in his spare time. By Niko McCarty. Read every article from Asimov Press by visiting press.asimov.com.
	The Sunlight Budget of Earth	07 Aug 2025	00:14:52
Sunlight represents a seemingly endless source of largely untapped energy. Just how endless is it? Written by Sam Clamons. Visit press.asimov.com to read all of our articles.
	How to Scale Proteomics	04 Aug 2025	00:18:22
A look inside Parallel Squared Technology Institute, a focused research organization trying to make analyzing a proteome as easy as DNA sequencing. By Niko McCarty. Read all of our articles by visiting press.asimov.com.
	Spinning Bacteria	31 Jul 2025	00:10:35
By spinning bacteria in circles, scientists figured out how phage viruses time their escape from an infected cell. By Kamal Nahas. Visit press.asimov.com to read more articles about biology.
	Cable Bacteria are Living Batteries	23 Jul 2025	00:10:15
How a discovery in a Danish lake changed our understanding of biological communities and energy. By Niko McCarty. Visit press.asimov.com to read more.
	What Makes a Mature Science	21 Jul 2025	00:40:09
Mechanism alone cannot make a science credible. It must describe its subject matter in terms of entities, properties, and rules. By SLIME MOLD TIME MOLD. Read every article from Asimov Press, for free, at press.asimov.com.

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