Biotech

New companies are popping up to become the Amazons, Apples, and Intels of genome engineering... (2018)

Early research results show that up to 77 percent of the bone scaffolding had been absorbed and replaced by natural bone 6 months after surgery. (2020)

Check out the science of biohacking, where biologists go into a patient’s genetic code and reprogram their immune system to recognize and fight can... (2022)

Ayesha Rascoe speaks to Harvard researcher Sam Kriegman about xenobots, the self-replicating robots he helped create. (2021)

It is cheaper and better than anything now available | Science & technology (2021)

In the era of modern science, hardly a week goes by without a big advance in biology. Although such progress will continue in 2018, it will not bri... (2017)

CRISPR’s not on the cusp of anything. "How many diseases could humans treat if the DNA in troublesome cells could be edited within the body? Ha... (2017)

The $850,000 price of a newly approved gene therapy for blindness stunned patient advocates, but the sticker shock could quickly wear off. (2018)

AI in healthcare feels inevitable: Optimists predict that artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) will diagnose disease better and ear... (2018)

DIYers used a security flaw to bypass the $8.3 billion insulin delivery business with a cobbled-together artificial pancreas. (2018)

In this exclusive excerpt from 'Ticker: The Quest to Create an Artificial Heart,' world-renowned Houston surgeon Bud Frazier races to help an ailin... (2018)

Proponents of the chips say they're safe and largely protected from hacking, but one scientist is raising privacy concerns around the kind of perso... (2018)

Xenobots mark a major step forward in biological robots. The tiny, short-lived creatures are designed in a virtual world then 3D printed with livin... (2020)

FOR those who reckon that brain-computer interfaces will never catch on, there is a simple answer: they already have. Well over 300,000 people worl... (2018)

Welcome! In this post, we’ll be taking a character-by-character look at the source code of the BioNTech/Pfizer SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccine. I want t... (2020)