Eulogy to the Obits

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.

Plus: A partnership with Astera Institute and our first job posting.

More than a century after the invention of vaccines, a veterinarian stumbled across a technique to boost their efficacy in an unlikely way — by observing wounded horses.