Biotechnology and health

This vibrating weight-loss pill seems to work—in pigs

What if all you needed to lose weight were some good vibrations? That’s the idea behind a new weight-loss pill

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We’re all teeming with microbes. We’ve got guts full of them, and they’re crawling all over our skin. These tiny,

The company that just got approval to sell the first gene-editing treatment in history, for sickle-cell disease, is already looking

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37 trillion. That is the number or cells that form a human being. How they all work together to sustain

The results of my genetic test arrived in an unpretentious white envelope. It was the summer of 2021, and I

Our new 2024 list of 10 Breakthrough Technologies won’t come out until January. But I recently gave attendees at EmTech

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Download In today’s digital world, graphic design and photo editing have become essential skills, and Adobe Photoshop remains one of