APRIL 30, 2025 News Release PNNL Hosts Inaugural Conference on Predictive Phenomics PNNL is hosting a scientific conference focused directly on understanding and predicting the collection of an organism’s traits. ( Read More )
APRIL 8, 2025 News Release Disturbed Sleep Cycle Propels Cyanobacteria Into Surprising Burst of Productivity Circadian rhythms of blue-green microbes offer new window into predictive phenomics—how to predict and control the traits of an organism. ( Read More )
FEBRUARY 13, 2025 News Release Beyond DNA: How Environments Influence Biology to Make Things Happen This week at AAAS, PNNL scientists discuss phenomics and the factors that influence DNA instructions to bring about the world around us. ( Read More )
NOVEMBER 1, 2024 News Release Researchers Develop High-Tech Methods to Stem the Flow of Fentanyl Scientists are developing ways to detect previously unseen forms of fentanyl as well as other synthetic opioids known as nitazenes. ( Read More )
OCTOBER 17, 2024 News Release Soils from Six Continents Add Up to Largest Database of Viruses Beneath Our Feet Scientists plumbed the depths of nearly 3,000 soil samples from around the globe to compile the heftiest atlas of soil viruses ever created. ( Read More )
AUGUST 6, 2024 News Release Sniff Test for Explosives Detection Extends Its Reach Scientists have developed a way to detect tiny amounts of hard-to-detect explosives more than eight feet away. ( Read More )
AUGUST 1, 2024 News Release Experiment on Photosynthesis by Scientists at PNNL Headed to the Space Station As launch time draws near, PNNL scientists are eager to explore how plants might grow in space, where the effect of gravity is substantially weaker. ( Read More )
JULY 23, 2024 News Release PNNL Scientists Tap Nation’s Fastest Computers to Explore Critical Science Questions Researchers will explore climate, pathogens and energy-efficient microelectronics using 3 million node hours on the nation’s supercomputers. ( Read More )
MAY 9, 2024 News Release Study Shows How Night Shift Work Can Raise Risk of Diabetes, Obesity New research sheds light on the biomolecular dangers of night shift work. ( Read More )
MAY 1, 2024 News Release When Working Out, Males Are Programmed to Burn More Fat, while Females Recycle It—at Least in Rats Vigorous exercise burns fat more in males than in females, but the benefits of exercise are broad for both sexes. ( Read More )
MARCH 1, 2024 News Release PNNL Scientists Help Pinpoint Molecular Switch Active in Type-1 Diabetes Scientists have learned more about how to protect the insulin-producing cells that die in patients with Type 1 diabetes. ( Read More )
FEBRUARY 8, 2024 News Release EMSL User Project Leads to Key Molecular Culprit Active in COVID-19 PNNL researchers helped identify a fragment from the SARS-CoV-2 virus that spurs severe illness. ( Read More )
FEBRUARY 2, 2024 News Release Proteins Suggest a Path to Reduce Drug Resistance in a Form of Cancer Scientists have learned more about how drug resistance develops in patients with acute myeloid leukemia and how the process might be slowed. ( Read More )
OCTOBER 12, 2023 News Release Cleaner Snow Boosts Future Snowpack Predictions Less pollution and the odd shapes of snow grains as they pack together should help cut the decline of snowpack later this century. ( Read More )
SEPTEMBER 29, 2023 News Release How to Slow Global Warming: Three Widescale Efforts Could Make the Difference In a new paper, researchers point to three major efforts where the biggest climate mitigation gains stand to be realized: ramping up carbon dioxide removal, reigning in non-carbon dioxide emissions and halting deforestation. ( Read More )
SEPTEMBER 20, 2023 News Release PNNL Collaborates with Microsoft, Micron to Bring Computational Chemistry to the Masses PNNL is collaborating with Microsoft, Micron and other partners to make computational chemistry broadly available. ( Read More )
SEPTEMBER 12, 2023 News Release Researchers Create a New Window on Leading Genetic Cause of Alzheimer’s Scientists have opened a new view into the workings of the central nervous system, finding a diverse set of important molecules. ( Read More )
JUNE 29, 2023 News Release Proteins Predict Significant Step Toward Development of Diabetes Scientists have taken an important step forward in predicting who will develop Type 1 diabetes months before symptoms appear. ( Read More )
FEBRUARY 9, 2023 News Release Harmful Effects of Long-Term Alcohol Use Documented in Blood Protein Snapshot A detailed snapshot of proteins by PNNL scientists marks a big step toward a diagnostic blood test for a deadly form of liver disease. ( Read More )
OCTOBER 25, 2022 News Release COVID-Causing Virus in Air Detected with High-Tech Bubbles Scientists can detect the virus that causes COVID-19 by using a bubble that spills its contents like a piñata when encountering the virus. ( Read More )