What’s next for mRNA vaccines
Cast your mind back to 2020, if you can bear it. As the year progressed, so did the impact of
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Biotechnology
Brain stimulation might be more invasive than we think
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Is there a limit to human life?
People have always been fascinated with the question of human longevity. In this 1954 piece for Technology Review, James A.
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Mind-altering substances are being overhyped as wonder drugs
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Neuroscientists have created a mood decoder that can measure depression
John’s life changed forever when he broke up with his girlfriend. The breakup sent him into a downward spiral, and
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Babies spend most of their time asleep. New technologies are beginning to reveal why
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DNA that was frozen for 2 million years has been sequenced
After an eight-year effort to recover DNA from Greenland’s frozen interior, researchers say they’ve managed to sequence gene fragments from
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Your microbiome ages as you do—and that’s a problem
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We can now use cells from dead people to create new life. But who gets to decide?
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