Grove Lab

Instruments you navigate, built on published data.

ProjectsWhat we're working on.

Haplofield

Move through 10,673 people who lived up to 185,000 years ago. Turn one dial, and the DNA they share sorts them into families.

10,673 people who lived up to 185,000 years ago, each placed where they were found and when they lived.

One dial sets how much DNA two people must share to count as kin. Turn it, and the space sorts itself into hundreds of families.

Pulse Atlas

Well-being across Europe's regions, scored on open data. Find yours, and see how it compares.

Well-being across Europe’s regions, scored on open data by the method the OECD and the European Commission’s research center recommend.

Find your region, and see how it compares.

Embryo

Watch real embryos build themselves, cell by cell: a roundworm’s 4 cells become 580, first as nuclei and then as whole cells, and a sea squirt’s 64 become 702.

Three real embryos, each recorded as it built itself.

A roundworm: 4 cells become 580 in 6 hours, every nucleus where it was measured. The same animal again, this time as 334 packed cells with their actual shapes. A sea squirt: 64 cells become 702, each in its real shape.

Keep a cell and press play. Cut the sea squirt open and watch its gut fold inside.

Curvamino

“Complete protein” depends on who is eating. Draw a plate’s protein as one line across the nine essential amino acids, against one of 7 published requirements, and watch it clear one and miss another.

A plate’s protein, drawn as one line across the nine essential amino acids, against a requirement you choose: an adult’s, a toddler’s, an infant’s. The same rice and beans clears one line and misses another.

Switch the requirement, re-portion the plate, or slide two foods through every proportion to find where the mix meets it.