The Biological Sciences Divisionhas 16 collaborative, interdisciplinary teams working to understand how plants, microbes, and algae function in a way that helps predict their response to environmental change and their potential for energy production. Insights into the workings of human tissues reveal how toxins and pathogens could influence human health. Our research inspires biology-based advances to tackle some of the biggest challenges our world faces in ecosystem sustainability and human health. Learn more about how PNNL teams explore these areas using instrumentation that provides large-scale, molecular-level information and computational tools to efficiently process vast amounts of data.
Distributed science is thriving at PNNL, where scientists share data and collaborate with researchers around the world to increase the impact of the work.
Predicting how organisms’ characteristics respond to not only their genes, but also their environments (a nascent field called predictive phenomics), is extraordinarily challenging. Researchers at PNNL are using AI to tackle that challenge.
Over the next four years, PNNL and University of Arizona will develop open-source computational tools to better identify and characterize the viruses associated with the human microbiome.
Armed with some of the world’s most advanced instrumentation, researchers at PNNL are working to analyze huge amounts of data and uncover hidden biological connections.
NASA has awarded $2.5 million to the BioS-ENDURES consortium, led by the University of Washington and including WSU and PNNL, to advance space life sciences research supporting human health in space and Earth-based applications.
PNNL's McDearis and Rod designed a new device—a porous soil stake—that, once installed, enables repeated sampling of a specific soil site at multiple depths, without further disrupting the soil.
The Biological Sciences Division has 16 collaborative, interdisciplinary teams that inspire biology-based advances to tackle some of the biggest challenges our world faces in ecosystem sustainability, bioenergy, human health and national security.
