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Where biology meets art and culture: exhibitions, books and ideas that explore living systems beyond the lab.

The Coming of Age: Can a Dish Grow Old?

Wellcome Collection’s The Coming of Age explores how environment, culture and society shape the way we grow older. Organoid research faces a parallel question:...

Community Matters: The Living Biology Beneath Hair

Ed Sayers’ Super Nature offers a collective portrait of life through relationships and environments. Modern organoid research is revealing something similar inside the body:...

Super Nature by Ed Sayers: The Ecology Within

Ed Sayers’ Super Nature offers a collective portrait of life through relationships and environments. Modern organoid research is revealing something similar inside the body:...

ODCF Seoul: Rehearsing a Future Beyond the Lab

As biotechnology moves beyond the laboratory, it raises culture & ethical questions that science alone cannot resolve. ODCF 2026 brings those questions into art,...

Design of the Unusual: When Growth Becomes a Way of Making

Bio, Arts & Culture | From fungal mycelium to engineered microbes, biology is changing our idea of what it means to manufacture a material....

You Are a Coral Reef: The Body Is a Habitat

Bio, Arts & Culture | Martin Oeggerli’s microscopic images reveal the human body as an intricate habitat. Emerging microbiome research is taking a similar...

Togetherness: From Living Systems to Cellular Societies

Rowan Hooper’s Togetherness explores how life is shaped by relationships rather than isolated individuals. Cancer biology is revealing a darker version of the same...

Notes and Neurons: When a Concert Becomes a Brain Experiment

A German concert series is bringing musicians, neuroscientists and medical technology together to explore what music may reveal about memory, cognition and the ageing...

AI versus Human: Can Machines Learn Like We Do?

As Artificial Intelligence tools become increasingly capable, one question naturally emerges: are machines beginning to learn the way humans do? Neuroscience suggests the answer...

The Organoid World Is Meeting in Korea This September

ODC26 unites the global organoid and NAMs community in Seoul, Sept 17–18, 2026. See the program, Korea's policy push, and Lambda Biologics' co-host role.

ODC26 Organoid Developer Conference 2026

Behind Minnesota’s “Grandparents Happy Hour”: The Neuroscience of Joy

A glass of wine is usually more than just a glass of wine. Minnesota Governor Tim Walz recently signed the “Grandparents’ Happy Hour bill”...

Older couple toasting with red wine glasses, smiling and leaning in together on a couch.

Nature’s Blueprint: What We Can Learn from Diatoms

Some of the most sophisticated architectural designs on Earth are invisible to the naked eye. Under a microscope, diatoms — single-celled algae found throughout...

Close-up of a circular central hub with radially extending, finger-like spokes forming a starburst pattern; a microscopic skeletal structure in grayscale.

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