Biotechnology Archives - Page 7 of 13

A Birth Control Pill for Men Is One Step Closer

Scott Simonsen - April 2, 2019

How Engineered Nanoparticles Gave Mice Infrared Vision

Edd Gent - March 6, 2019

Graphene Shows Promise for Repairing Broken Bones

Aaron Saenz - March 4, 2019

Scientists Just Added Four New Letters to the Genetic Code

Edd Gent - February 24, 2019

Demystifying GMOs: New Research Shows Unexpected Changes in Plant DNA

Scott Simonsen - February 11, 2019

Gene Drives Survived a Proposed UN Ban in 2018—What’s Next?

Thomas Hornigold - January 2, 2019

Disrupting Reproduction: Two New Advances in Tech-Assisted Baby-Making

Shelly Fan - December 11, 2018

CRISPR Babies: Stumbling Over Mankind’s Next Giant Leap

Tiffany Vora - December 4, 2018

Welcome to the CRISPR Baby World—Here’s What You Should Know

Shelly Fan - December 4, 2018

Ears Grown From Apples? The Promise of Plants for Engineering Human Tissue

Shelly Fan - November 13, 2018

Science vs. Superbugs: A New Wave of Solutions Is On the Way

Peter Rejcek - October 24, 2018

Healthy Mice Born From Same-Sex Parents For the First Time

Shelly Fan - October 16, 2018

Human Immature Eggs Made From Blood Cells for the First Time

Shelly Fan - October 2, 2018

New Technique Heals Wounds With Reprogrammed Skin Cells

Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte - September 14, 2018

Eternal Life Is No Good Without Eternal Youth

Edd Gent - September 10, 2018

Would You Eat ‘Meat’ from a Lab? Consumers Aren’t Necessarily Sold on ‘Cultured Meat’

Andrew Maynard - August 31, 2018

Landmark FDA Approval Brings Powerful Gene Silencing Method to Market

Shelly Fan - August 21, 2018

Newly-Decoded Wheat Genome Opens the Door to Engineering Superfoods

Edd Gent - August 20, 2018

If We Made Life in a Lab, Would We Understand It Differently?

Rebecca Wilbanks - August 19, 2018

CAR-T May Be a Silver Bullet Against Cancer—and Here’s What Else It Can Do

Shelly Fan - August 7, 2018

Successfully Transplanted Lab-Grown Pig Lungs Take Us Closer to Custom Organs

Edd Gent - August 6, 2018

DNA Computing Gets a Boost With This Machine Learning Hack

Shelly Fan - July 24, 2018

New Study Sounds a Note of Caution in the Development of CRISPR Gene Therapies

Edd Gent - July 23, 2018

This Drug Combo Extends Lifespan and Healthspan in Mice by Killing ‘Zombie’ Cells

Shelly Fan - July 17, 2018

New DNA Synthesis Method Could Soon Build a Genome in a Day

Shelly Fan - July 10, 2018

Three Huge Ways Tech Is Overhauling Healthcare

Peter H. Diamandis, MD - July 6, 2018

What Makes People Distrust Science? Surprisingly, Not Politics

Bastiaan T Rutjens - June 24, 2018

Pioneering Stem Cell Trial Seeks to Cure Babies Before Birth

Shelly Fan - June 13, 2018

How Cyanobacteria Could Help Save the Planet

Thomas Hornigold - June 4, 2018

5 Sci-Fi Books Biotech Geeks Should Read Right Now

Elsa Sotiriadis - June 3, 2018

Microbes in Space: Bioengineered Bugs Could Help Colonize New Planets

Edd Gent - May 29, 2018

Living Neanderthal ‘Mini-Brains’ May Reveal What Makes Our Brains Special

Shelly Fan - May 23, 2018

CRISPR-on-a-Chip For Diagnosing Cancer May Soon Be a Thing

Shelly Fan - May 2, 2018

Mini-Brains Just Grew Their Own Blood Vessels—Here’s Why That’s Great News

Shelly Fan - April 18, 2018

This Memory Prosthesis Boosts Recall in Humans by Roughly 40 Percent

Shelly Fan - April 10, 2018

Artificial Photosynthesis Is Solar Energy’s Forgotten Cousin—and It’s Making a Comeback

Thomas Hornigold - February 25, 2018

The Biggest Tech Takeaways From the 2018 World Economic Forum

Vanessa Bates Ramirez - February 4, 2018

Enzyme Designed Entirely From Scratch Opens a World of Biological Possibility

Shelly Fan - January 31, 2018

Chinese Scientists Just Cloned a Monkey—Here Are the Details

Vanessa Bates Ramirez - January 24, 2018

If We Could Engineer Animals to Be as Smart as Humans—Should We?

Edd Gent - January 16, 2018

New Research Suggests Immunity to CRISPR Gene Editing Poses a Challenge

Thomas Hornigold - January 8, 2018

Why the World Is Still Getting Better—and That’s Likely to Continue

Sveta McShane - January 5, 2018

There’s Healing Power in the Secret Electrical Language of Our Cells

Edd Gent - December 27, 2017

The Enormous Promise and Peril of Bioengineering’s Pandora’s Box

Thomas Hornigold - December 17, 2017

These Bacteria Use New DNA Bases to Make a Protein Not Found in Nature

Edd Gent - December 7, 2017

5 Wild Biotech Products That Will Touch Our Lives in the Near Future

Elsa Sotiriadis - November 24, 2017

This ‘Living Touch Screen’ Is Made out of Bacteria and Gold

Shelly Fan - October 25, 2017

Does Our Survival Depend on Relentless Exponential Growth?

Thomas Hornigold - October 11, 2017

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Now That Anyone Can Hack Biology—Should We Be Afraid?

Singularity Hub Staff - October 2, 2017

This Radical New Method Regenerates Failing Lungs With Blood Vessels Intact

Shelly Fan - September 20, 2017

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