RETINAL ORGANOIDHUMAN / IN VITRO
Organoids
How much of an organ can we grow?
Human tissue, grown outside the body. What can it reveal about disease—and how close does it come to the real thing?
Explore the briefThe New Alchemist / Research & medicine
The frontier.
Organoids. Protein design. The datasets behind biological AI. And the medicines that bring new science into people’s lives.
Working briefs for future coverageRETINAL ORGANOIDHUMAN / IN VITRO
MODERNA / mRNA-1283An antigen,
redesigned.
redesigned.
NTDRBDAnchor
ANTIGEN SCHEMATIC / NOT TO SCALEVaccines & clinical trials
What changed in Moderna’s vaccine?
A closer look at mNEXSPIKE: a redesigned antigen, a lower mRNA dose and the trial behind its first US approval.
Explore the briefHUMAN LUNG CELL ATLAS / v1.0
49datasets107individuals in the healthy core
TISSUE Human lungANNOTATION Six-expert consensusREFERENCE Sikkema et al. / 2023
Biological datasets
The data behind the model
Before an AI model learns biology, someone has to decide what to measure. The story starts with the cells, the experiments and the people missing from the dataset.
Explore the briefSTRUCTURE / 9CC5
Designed binderAmylin
Protein design
A protein made to find another
Design a new protein to bind a chosen target. Then make it, measure it, and find out what that encounter can do.
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