On the windowsill of a science laboratory high above the clamor of the Harvard Medical School campus, tidy rows of sunflower, avocado, and lemon plants bask in the afternoon sun. Every day, scientists ...

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What does a scientist look like? A bright-eyed intellectual donning a white lab coat and goggles? Often, yes. But these days, they could look like a stack of computer servers softly humming away in an ...

We do a lot of flow cytometry, and the software that it’s run on is called Diva. We were just like, “she's a diva” because there are little glitches all the time. When certain things don't work, we ...

Last year, in July, Reine Protacio’s experiments suddenly stopped working. Every scientist encounters baffling results from time to time; you chalk it up to error, repeat the experiment, and hope for ...