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.
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.
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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EnergyA Los Alamos partnership seeks to expand the reach of hydrogen fuel cell technology
The Laboratory and Advent Technologies are developing Ion Pair Membrane Electrode Assemblies to operate in a wider array of applications for hydrogen fuel cells
EnergyAccelerator could produce commercial tritium for fusion from nuclear waste
Domestic supply of tritium could provide economic and efficiency advantages
EnergyNew 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
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