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China Has a Controversial Plan for Brain-Computer Interfaces

At a tech forum in Beijing last week, a Chinese company unveiled a “homegrown” brain-computer interface that allowed a monkey to seemingly control a...

The Age of Crispr Medicine Is Here

So far, only nine centers across the US are currently offering Casgevy, which may limit who gets access to it. Vertex says the number...

The AI Factor: Why Cash Still Flows To European Biotech Startups

Putting the Tech In Bio: Why Cash Still Flows To European Biotech Startups Amid ongoing concerns about declining VC funding in the United Kingdom, Biotech...

‘Embryo Models’ Challenge the Legal, Ethical, and Biological Concepts of an ‘Embryo’

Meanwhile, Hanna’s team in Israel was growing mouse embryo models in a similar way, as they described in a paper in Cell that was...

Farallon steps up activism at biotech company Exelixis. Here’s what could happen next

Adene Sanchez | E+ | Getty ImagesCompany: Exelixis (EXEL)Business: Exelixis, an oncology-focused biotechnology company, focuses on the discovery, development, and commercialization of new medicines...

Researchers Want to Create ‘Universal Donor’ Lungs

Increasing the number of universal donors, Cypel hoped, would make more lungs available to more people, and make the process more equitable. “Today we...

A Twist on Stem Cell Transplants Could Help Blood Cancer Patients

“It’s exciting that we could do it,” says Shlomchik.“This is an important first step,” agrees Nelson Chao, chief of the division of Hematological Malignancies...

covaxin: Bharat Biotech yet to apply for Covaxin approval by Canada, need to do that: High Commission – Times of India

NEW DELHI: Bharat Biotech needs to apply for getting Covaxin approved by Canada so that Indian fully vaccinated with this vaccine can get access...

Pluton Biosciences looks to nature for cutting edge biotech solutions, raising $6.6M seed – TechCrunch

Many of the problems we face today in biology and agriculture have been faced before — but not by humans. Somewhere in nature there...

An Experimental Birth Control Attacks Sperm Like a Virus

Over the millennia, people have come up with some very effective ways to avoid having babies. The ancient Egyptians and Greeks used linen sheaths...

Cells Form Into Living ‘Xenobots’ on Their Own

The potential for cells to find their way to body plans was dramatically illustrated recently with a report that when some sea slugs become...

Could Fruit Flies Help Match Patients With Cancer Treatments?

“I’m about two months away from finding out if there are other drugs and combinations that could actually save my life,” says Silverman, who...

Million-Year-Old DNA Rewrites Mammoths’ Evolutionary Tree

The oldest DNA ever sequenced shows how the genus split off into new species.

Nature Makes Wood. Could a Lab Make It Better?

For all the ways that humans have toyed with nature, how we grow and extract materials from the forest and fields remains fundamentally unchanged....

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