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Understanding and engineering consciousness
How does matter become conscious?
Introducing Astera’s New Residents
And some early outcomes from the residency so far
Radial Doubles Down on Dynamic Structural Biology with ‘Prism’
Last summer, Astera’s life science division, Radial, launched a project aiming to reimagine how biologists study protein motion experimentally. Proteins are in constant motion, and this motion drives their function. But today, much of structural biology only captures static snapshots, representing the most common form a protein adopts. This is why we can predict a […]
Astera Partnering with the National Science Foundation to Support Open Science
Today, the National Science Foundation (NSF) announced a partnership with the Astera Institute related to the first round of investment in building a national network of automated laboratory infrastructure, known as the Programmable Cloud Laboratories (PCL) Test Bed Initiative. The NSF will spend $380 million spread across 20 awardees to advance AI and automated instrumentation […]
What Scientists Said: Results from Astera’s First Essay Competition
Astera recently hosted its first essay competition, focused around metascience. This competition was always more about starting a conversation than finding a bunch of perfect solutions. We wanted to hear from working researchers, not policy experts or administrators, about the structural problems they actually run into, described concretely enough that someone could do something about […]
The Data Problem Killing Drug Discovery
Pat Walters | Chief Scientist, OpenADMET
Radial Supports The Deliverome Project
Building the missing data layer for precision medicine delivery
Spinning a new future with programmable fibers
Proteins are the programmable manufacturing material of the future.
Mapping the path to one cent electricity
A new Astera Resident investigates not just how transformative fusion could be, but what would have to be true to get there.