Five PNNL innovations earned 2026 R&D 100 Awards for advances in biotechnology, manufacturing, critical minerals, and nuclear security.

PNNL Launches Center for Robotics and Autonomy to advance trustworthy autonomous science at speed and scale.

Genesis Mission awards to PNNL will advance scientific discovery, next-generation energy systems and advanced manufacturing, among others.

Integrating multiple structural proteomics techniques helps unravel microbial responses to changing environments—key to developing next-generation biotechnology solutions.

Study shows the advantages of top-town proteomics for characterizing histones.

Scientists are optimizing microbes to harvest critical minerals and produce bioproducts using AI and autonomous lab equipment.

Margaret Cheung elected to premier scientific society.

A microbial community expresses a phenotype of interest ~20 percent higher than the sum of each member species.

Automated liquid handling, combined with data analysis and AI, optimizes microbiological growth conditions at PNNL.

Autonomous science laboratories are taking shape quickly across the PNNL campus.

From exploring the development of transformative materials to strengthening biotechnology, six up-and-coming PNNL scientists were recognized for their scientific vision and prowess.

PNNL is central to the Genesis Mission, leading and participating in projects central to the nation’s security and international competitiveness.

Structural proteomics reveal how cyanobacteria adapt to changing light.

Secretary Wright visited PNNL's campus in Richland, Washington, late last year to meet with innovators in chemistry, biology, computing, and more.

Researchers use multiomics to confirm role of lipid synthesis during infection, leading to model of how to restrict virus replication.

McDermott is co-chairing one of only five organized sessions at the annual Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing.

PNNL researchers Daniel Deng and Yehia Ibrahim join the 2025 class of National Academy of Inventors Fellows.

Pioneering autonomous science facility puts a big focus on tiny microbes and AI-driven science.

PNNL researchers are opening up a new front in the fight to stop viral pathogens, protecting people against multiple viruses.

Capturing protein structural changes in host cells exposes vulnerabilities exploited by viruses to hijack cellular machinery.