We’re starting to understand the mysterious surge of hepatitis in children
Hundreds of young children around the world have developed severe cases of hepatitis with no obvious cause, leaving doctors baffled.
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Biotechnology
Monkeypox is in Bay Area wastewater
Last month, Stanford’s Sewer Coronavirus Alert Network, or SCAN, added monkeypox to the suite of viruses it checks wastewater for
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The weed influencer and the scientist feuding over why some stoners incessantly puke
Alice Moon couldn’t stop throwing up. She had made a name for herself as an online cannabis influencer, but after
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Edits to a cholesterol gene could stop the biggest killer on earth
A volunteer in New Zealand has become the first person to undergo DNA editing in order to lower their blood
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Rewriting what we thought was possible in biotech
Have you heard? The tech in biotech is nailing it. Machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) can now figure
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A locust’s brain has been hacked to sniff out cancer
Cyborg locust brains can help spot the telltale signs of human cancer in the lab, a new study has shown.
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Homophobic misinformation is making it harder to contain the spread of monkeypox
Homophobic misinformation circulating about monkeypox on social media is hampering efforts to curb the disease’s spread, research conducted on behalf
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The Download: Saudi Arabia’s $1 billion plan to slow aging, and global energy turmoil
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world
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Saudi Arabia plans to spend $1 billion a year discovering treatments to slow aging
Anyone who has more money than they know what to do with eventually tries to cure aging. Google founder Larry
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