Biotechnology Archives - Page 5 of 13

Molecular Farming Means the Next Vaccine Could Be Edible and Grown in a Plant

Shelly Fan - August 17, 2021

A Secret to Healthy Aging May Be the Bugs in Your Microbiome

Shelly Fan - August 10, 2021

New ‘Universal Switch’ Lets Scientists Fine-Tune Gene Therapy

Shelly Fan - August 3, 2021

Scientists Bred Healthy Mice Using Artificial Eggs and Ovaries Made From Stem Cells

Shelly Fan - July 27, 2021

‘Next-Generation’ Total Artificial Heart Successfully Transplanted into First US Patient

Vanessa Bates Ramirez - July 23, 2021

Treating the Brain Through the Stomach: Tweaking the Gut Microbiome Slowed ALS in Mice

Shelly Fan - July 13, 2021

New Cultured Meat Factory Will Churn Out 5,000 Bioreactor Burgers a Day

Vanessa Bates Ramirez - July 2, 2021

Breakthrough CRISPR Gene Therapy Could Be a ‘One and Done’ Injection

Jason Dorrier - July 1, 2021

A New Brain Implant Automatically Detects and Kills Pain in Real Time

Shelly Fan - June 29, 2021

Each of These Microscopic Glass Beads Stores an Image Encoded on a Strand of DNA

Jason Dorrier - June 20, 2021

Why It Took 20 Years to ‘Finish’ the Human Genome—and Why There’s Still More to Do

Melissa Southey - June 13, 2021

Scientists Used CRISPR to Engineer a New ‘Superbug’ That’s Invincible to All Viruses

Shelly Fan - June 8, 2021

Google and Harvard Unveil the Largest High-Resolution Map of the Brain Yet

Jason Dorrier - June 6, 2021

One CRISPR Treatment Lowered Cholesterol in Monkeys by 60 Percent

Vanessa Bates Ramirez - May 26, 2021

How Gene Therapy and Algae Proteins Partially Restored a Blind Man’s Sight

Shelly Fan - May 25, 2021

How One Round of Gene Therapy Fixed 48 Kids’ Immune Systems

Vanessa Bates Ramirez - May 13, 2021

A New Gene Editing Tool Could Rival CRISPR, and Makes Millions of Edits at Once

Shelly Fan - May 11, 2021

A New CRISPR Tool Flips Genes On and Off Like a Light Switch

Shelly Fan - April 27, 2021

Scientist George Church Is Auctioning Off His Genome as an NFT

Vanessa Bates Ramirez - April 22, 2021

Scientists Grew Human Cells in Monkey Embryos, and Yes, It’s an Ethical Minefield

Shelly Fan - April 20, 2021

A Massive New Gene Editing Project Is Out to Crush Alzheimer’s

Shelly Fan - April 13, 2021

How Scientists Grew Human Muscles in Pig Embryos, and Why It Matters for Organ Transplants

Shelly Fan - April 6, 2021

Xenobots 2.0: These Living Robots Self-Assemble From Frog Skin Cells

Edd Gent - April 2, 2021

Scientists Created an Artificial Early Embryo From Human Skin Cells

Shelly Fan - March 23, 2021

3 Medical Innovations Fueled by Covid-19 That Will Outlast the Pandemic

Deborah Fuller - March 11, 2021

An Israeli Startup Is 3D Printing Cultured Ribeye Steaks

Edd Gent - February 17, 2021

How an Israeli Startup Is Using AI to Help People Make Babies

Vanessa Bates Ramirez - January 27, 2021

Scientists Made a Biohybrid Nose Using Cells From Mosquitoes

Shelly Fan - January 26, 2021

No Trees Harmed: MIT Aims to One Day Grow Your Kitchen Table in a Lab

Jason Dorrier - January 24, 2021

This Artificial Heart Will Soon Be on the Market in Europe

Vanessa Bates Ramirez - January 20, 2021

A Language AI Is Accurately Predicting Covid-19 ‘Escape’ Mutations

Shelly Fan - January 19, 2021

New Research Could Enable Direct Data Transfer From Computers to Living Cells

Edd Gent - January 11, 2021

Fighting Covid-19 Brought These Lasting Breakthroughs to Science and Medicine

Shelly Fan - December 29, 2020

2020 in Neuroscience, Longevity, and AI—and What’s to Come

Shelly Fan - December 22, 2020

DeepMind’s AlphaFold Is Close to Solving One of Biology’s Greatest Challenges

Shelly Fan - December 15, 2020

Another Win for Senolytics: Fighting Aging at the Cellular Level Just Got Easier

Shelly Fan - November 24, 2020

Can We Wipe Out All Coronaviruses for Good? Here’s What a Group of 200 Scientists Think

Shelly Fan - October 27, 2020

How Machine Learning Made Hops-Free Hoppy Beer (and Other SynBio Wonders) Possible

Shelly Fan - October 6, 2020

Oxford Scientists: These Are Final Steps We’re Taking to Get Our Coronavirus Vaccine Approved

Rebecca Ashfield - September 9, 2020

Stream or Skip? A Synthetic Biologist’s Review of ‘Biohackers’ on Netflix

Elsa Sotiriadis - September 2, 2020

Scientists Used Protein Switches to Turn T Cells Into Cancer-Fighting Guided Missiles

Edd Gent - August 24, 2020

Biotechnology Could Change the Cattle Industry. Will It Succeed?

Dyllan Furness - August 16, 2020

Scientists Gene-Hack Cotton Plants to Make Them Every Color of the Rainbow

Jason Dorrier - August 11, 2020

A Year After Gene Therapy, Boys With Muscular Dystrophy Are Healthier and Stronger

Vanessa Bates Ramirez - July 30, 2020

How Fake Viruses Can Help Us Make the Best Possible Vaccines

Shelly Fan - July 7, 2020

Scientists 3D Printed Ears Inside Living Mice Using Light

Shelly Fan - June 9, 2020

Artificial Kidneys Are a Step Closer With This New Tech

Vanessa Bates Ramirez - June 3, 2020

A New Bionic Eye Could Give Robots and the Blind 20/20 Vision

Edd Gent - May 22, 2020

Scientists Are Cloning the Coronavirus Like Crazy. Here’s Why—and the Risks

Shelly Fan - May 19, 2020

Hacking Plant Life: Artificial Photosynthesis Takes a Leap Forward

Edd Gent - May 11, 2020

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