South Korea’s first institute dedicated to pure basic research, the Institute for Basic Science (IBS), was established in 2011 with the aim of generating the types of fundamental ‘breakthrough’ ...

This reprint collection marks the tenth anniversary of the Institute for Basic Science (IBS) in South Korea. It consists of eight papers published in the Nature family of journals that report some of ...

Manu Prakash works on the world’s most urgent problems and seemingly frivolous questions at the same time. They add up to a philosophy he calls “recreational biology.” Inside Manu Prakash are two ...

Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko with the magnetic bioassembler. Credit: Vladislav A. Parfenov and Stanislav V. Petrov, Laboratory for Biotechnological Research Astronauts have conducted all sorts of ...