China’s Clinical Trial Boom

In 2017, there were just over 600 clinical trials initiated in China. By 2023, that number was nearly 2,000. How can American companies kick off a similar boom?

With a litany of gene therapies and longevity medicine staving off biological death, those paid to write about it must reimagine their craft.

Some researchers claim that a Chilean vine can mimic the leaves of a plastic houseplant thanks to a form of primitive vision. But extraordinary claims require equally extraordinary evidence.

Why biologists should operate with a sense of urgency.

While we know how to break organisms down to their constituent parts, even at the atomic level, building them from scratch remains difficult.

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