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A Personalized Brain Implant Curbed a Woman’s OCD

Mental Health

A Personalized Brain Implant Curbed a Woman’s OCD

Emily Mullin

New Trials Aim to Restore Hearing in Deaf Children—With Gene Therapy

Biotech

New Trials Aim to Restore Hearing in Deaf Children—With Gene Therapy

Emily Mullin

These Gene-Edited Chickens Were Made to Resist Bird Flu

Immunity Boost

These Gene-Edited Chickens Were Made to Resist Bird Flu

Emily Mullin

A Monkey Got a New Kidney From a Pig—and Lived for 2 Years

Biotech

A Monkey Got a New Kidney From a Pig—and Lived for 2 Years

Emily Mullin

What Do We Owe the Octopus?

Bioethics

What Do We Owe the Octopus?

Emily Mullin

How Neuralink Keeps Dead Monkey Photos Secret

Full Disclosure

How Neuralink Keeps Dead Monkey Photos Secret

Dell Cameron and Dhruv Mehrotra

A Lab Just 3D-Printed a Neural Network of Living Brain Cells

Biotech

A Lab Just 3D-Printed a Neural Network of Living Brain Cells

Celia Ford

Katalin Karikó’s Nobel Prize Marks the Beginning of an mRNA Vaccine Revolution

mRNA

Katalin Karikó’s Nobel Prize Marks the Beginning of an mRNA Vaccine Revolution

Stephen Buranyi

DNA Drives Help Identify Missing People. It’s a Privacy Nightmare

Genetic Genealogy

DNA Drives Help Identify Missing People. It’s a Privacy Nightmare

Emily Mullin

Another Person Just Got a Pig Heart. Scientists Have a Plan to Make It Last

Change of Heart

Another Person Just Got a Pig Heart. Scientists Have a Plan to Make It Last

Emily Mullin

The Gruesome Story of How Neuralink’s Monkeys Actually Died

Test Case

The Gruesome Story of How Neuralink’s Monkeys Actually Died

Dhruv Mehrotra and Dell Cameron

The UK Is Burning Climate Pledges to Fuel a Culture War

Net Zero

The UK Is Burning Climate Pledges to Fuel a Culture War

Matt Reynolds

Everything We Know About Neuralink’s Brain Implant Trial

Biotech

Everything We Know About Neuralink’s Brain Implant Trial

Emily Mullin

Here Come the Glow-in-the-Dark Houseplants

Let There Be Light

Here Come the Glow-in-the-Dark Houseplants

Emily Mullin

Crispr Pioneer Jennifer Doudna Has the Guts to Take On the Microbiome

The Big Interview

Crispr Pioneer Jennifer Doudna Has the Guts to Take On the Microbiome

Jennifer Kahn

Insiders Reveal Major Problems at Lab-Grown-Meat Startup Upside Foods

Fake Meat

Insiders Reveal Major Problems at Lab-Grown-Meat Startup Upside Foods

Matt Reynolds and Joe Fassler

Covid Boosters Can’t Outpace New Mutations. Here’s Why They Still Work

Public Health

Covid Boosters Can’t Outpace New Mutations. Here’s Why They Still Work

Emily Mullin

Scientists Just Tried Growing Human Kidneys in Pigs

Building Blocks

Scientists Just Tried Growing Human Kidneys in Pigs

Emily Mullin

A Brain Implant Helped Stroke Survivors Regain Movement

Brain Power

A Brain Implant Helped Stroke Survivors Regain Movement

Emily Mullin

Injecting a Gene Into Monkeys’ Brains Curbed Their Alcohol Use

Biotech

Injecting a Gene Into Monkeys’ Brains Curbed Their Alcohol Use

Emily Mullin