This retina implant lets people with vision loss do a crossword puzzle
Science Corporation—a competitor to Neuralink founded by the former president of Elon Musk’s brain-interface venture—has leapfrogged its rival after acquiring
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biotech
Meet Cathy Tie, Bride of “China’s Frankenstein”
Since the Chinese biophysicist He Jiankui was released from prison in 2022, he has sought to make a scientific comeback
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Adventures in the genetic time machine
Eske Willerslev was on a tour of Montreal’s Redpath Museum, a Victorian-era natural history collection of 700,000 objects, many displayed
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Meta has an AI for brain typing, but it’s stuck in the lab
Back in 2017, Facebook unveiled plans for a brain-reading hat that you could use to text just by thinking. “We’re
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Stem-cell therapies that work: 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2025
WHO California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, Neurona Therapeutics, Vertex Pharmaceuticals WHEN 5 years A quarter-century ago, researchers isolated powerful stem
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Long-acting HIV prevention meds: 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2025
WHO Gilead Sciences, GSK, ViiV Healthcare WHEN 1 to 3 years In June 2024, results from a trial of a
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How poop could help feed the planet
A new industrial facility in suburban Seattle is giving off a whiff of futuristic technology. It can safely treat fecal
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Jobs of the future: Stool bank manager
Each year, about half a million Americans are diagnosed with Clostridioides difficile, a common bacterial infection of the large intestine.
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Drugs like Ozempic now make up 5% of prescriptions in the US
US doctors write billions of prescriptions each year. During 2024, though, one type of drug stood out—“wonder drugs” known as
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