Microbes too tiny for the eye to see are at the center of a big project in the Tri-Cities, leading the way on the use of artificial intelligence to advance scientific discovery.

U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright tapped a few keys on a laptop on the campus of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland on Thursday, commissioning a first-of-its-kind system using AI.

It is planned to greatly accelerate the speed at which biological science is done, making discoveries that change lives and help the nation.

But the system, the Anaerobic Microbial Phenotyping Platform, or AMP2, that Wright started up is just the beginning of the work that will be done on the campus of the Department of Energy national lab as part of the nation’s new Genesis Mission, a Trump administration initiative to

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