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Bioscience

Mission-driven science and innovation to protect the nation from biological, chemical, and environmental threats.

Bioscience Division comprises a diverse group of experimentalists and computer scientists who work closely with other interdisciplinary scientists across the Laboratory and beyond.

Our work serves the nation by developing science and technology to reduce natural and deliberate biological and chemical threats to human and animal populations and their way of life.

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From biosecurity preparedness to growing our bioeconomy, our scientists are:

  • Improving vaccine and therapeutics development
  • Developing analytics and machine learning for disease characterization and biosurveillance
  • Researching how organisms function and interact through microbiome analyses and integrated multi-omics
  • Using next generation genomics and microbial ecology to evaluate nutrient cycling and plant productivity
  • Creating competitive methods through biomanufacturing and biofuels development
  • Inventing new approaches for bio and chem threat detection and characterization
  • Designing bioengineered organ platforms for toxicology analysis and more
  • Studying antimicrobial resistance and host-pathogen interactions
  • Analyzing the factors that impact disease emergence

 

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Bioscience News

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2025-0429Energy

New quantum dot advancements hold promise for solar energy and photochemistry

Los Alamos researchers have made a breakthrough in quantum dot technology, significantly raising this technology’s ability to convert light into energy or chemical products

2025-03-17Energy

Los Alamos National Laboratory technology approved for US military marketplace website

The partnership will allow the US Air Force to utilize cutting-edge geothermal energy

2024-08-21Energy

Laboratory teams with Georgia Institute of Technology for AI energy-grid research

Agreement with AI4OPT will drive research and training on AI problem-solving

Contact Us

Bioscience Division

  • Los Alamos, NM 87545
  • 505-667-2690
  • bioscience-info@lanl.gov