Biotechnology and health

Health-care AI is here. We don’t know if it actually helps patients.

I don’t need to tell you that AI is everywhere. Or that it is being used, increasingly, in hospitals. Doctors are

If you want to capture something wolflike, it’s best to embark before dawn. So on a morning this January, with

For four days in February 2019, some 30 synthetic biologists and ethicists hunkered down at a conference center in Northern

Is it the Department of Defense or the Department of War? The Gulf of Mexico or the Gulf of America?

After operating in secrecy for years, a startup company called R3 Bio, in Richmond, California, suddenly shared details about its

“Think of this as a human body,” says Javier González. In front of me is essentially a metal box on

This week I reported on some rather unusual research that focuses on the brain of L. Stephen Coles. Coles was

L. Stephen Coles’s brain sits cushioned in a vat at a storage facility in Arizona. It has been held there

This week I want to look at where we are with psychedelics, the mind-altering substances that have somehow made the

In today's interconnected world, learning a second language has become more important than ever. It is not only a valuable