Biotechnology and health

How the sometimes-weird world of lifespan extension is gaining influence

For the last couple of years, I’ve been following the progress of a group of individuals who believe death is

“Who here believes involuntary death is a good thing?” Nathan Cheng has been delivering similar versions of this speech over

When Elon Musk was at Davos last week, an interviewer asked him if he thought aging could be reversed. Musk

This week marked a rather unpleasant anniversary: It’s a year since Texas reported a case of measles—the start of a

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

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