The Forgotten Pandemic

Humans have suffered from tuberculosis for thousands of years and, even today, the disease kills more than 1 million people each year. Yet diagnosing cases remains a challenge. Why?

The Forgotten Pandemic

Humans have suffered from tuberculosis for thousands of years and, even today, the disease kills more than 1 million people each year. Yet diagnosing cases remains a challenge. Why?

A Defense of Peer Review

Why scientists should strengthen, rather than replace, the peer review system.

Farma: Speculative Gastronomy

Despite years on the defensive, GMOs and other food technology can improve human and planetary health. A new restaurant is embracing this potential.

To Be Born in a Bag

Despite recent progress, artificial wombs still face technical challenges. De-extinction efforts, of all things, are driving it forward. Just how much is anyone’s guess.

Models of Life

Abhishaike Mahajan

A science fiction story about biology and computational models.

Making Eggs Without Ovaries

It may soon be possible to make human eggs from stem cells, thanks to advances in a technology called in vitro oogenesis. What happens next?