DECATUR – Poking candy pieces into gelatin is messy. “I was not trained to eat with my hands,” said Lonnie Ruff, a sixth-grader at Oak Grove School, when he looked down at the sticky result. Teacher ...

If Stephen Quake gets his way, biologists in the future will spend a lot less time wielding pipettes. “Our goal,” he says, “is to create computational tools so that cell biology goes from being 90% ...