Biotechnology and health

Researchers are getting organoids pregnant with human embryos

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

Weight-loss drugs have been back in the news this week. First, we heard that Eli Lilly, the company behind the

It has started to get really wintry here in London over the last few days. The mornings are frosty, the

Earlier this week, the UK’s science minister announced an ambitious plan: to phase out animal testing. Testing potential skin irritants

This week, we heard that Tom Brady had his dog cloned. The former quarterback revealed that his Junie is actually

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