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Open Culture Science and the Case for Biology You Can Talk To
At NeuMoS 2026 in Zurich, Santa Cruz's Open Culture Science soft-launched an AI-run lab platform that turns plain-language requests into living experiments, and made a serious case for leading a new field.
An Organoid’s View of the Future of the Lab
Hi, I'm an organoid! With the help of Autoculture by Open Culture Science, I can help reshape the lab's landscape and create a living preview of the human body.
How Open Culture Science Is Rewriting the Future of the Petri Dish
Open Culture Science, a startup born at UC Santa Cruz, is transforming traditional cell culture by automating tedious lab work and creating a shareable, programmable ecosystem for biological research.