Biotechnology and health

Three technologies that will shape biotech in 2026

Earlier this week, MIT Technology Review published its annual list of Ten Breakthrough Technologies. As always, it features technologies that

Here at MIT Technology Review we’ve been writing about the gene-editing technology CRISPR since 2013, calling it the biggest biotech

The new year has barely begun, but the first days of 2026 have brought big news for health. On Monday,

The Italian neurosurgeon Sergio Canavero has been preparing for a surgery that might never happen. His idea? Swap a sick

At first glance, it looks like the start of a human pregnancy: A ball-shaped embryo presses gently into the receptive

At some point next month, a handful of volunteers will be injected with two experimental gene therapies as part of

In just a couple of weeks, we’ll be bidding farewell to 2025. And what a year it has been! Artificial

This week I’ve been thinking about babies. Healthy ones. Perfect ones. As you may have read last week, my colleague

One day this fall, I watched an electronic sign outside the Broadway-Lafayette subway station in Manhattan switch seamlessly between an

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