Editor’s Note: The Innovations blog welcomes this “guest post” by Maria Popova, creator of the Brain Pickings blog. There is a curious cultural disconnect between our mythology of spontaneous ideation ...

Novel approach to engineering complex microbial traits generates tens of millions of gene combinations, enabling gain-of-function traits beyond those observed from individual genes SAN DIEGO, April 8, ...

Not so long ago, received wisdom in the psychology of trading and investing in financial markets said that the key to success was consistency. Once you found your probabilistic “edge” in markets, you ...

Ten years ago, Stuart L. Schreiber of Harvard University and coworkers reported a technique for making natural-product-like compound collections that featured an unprecedented diversity of structures.

As standalone technology, method has not delivered on promise. In about the year 2000, many believed that combinatorial chemistry combined with high-throughput screening would create scores of new ...