A Night of Food Futurism

Synthetic blood cells could solve blood shortages, but only if technical challenges are surmounted and costs are slashed.

The Supreme Court case that built the biotechnology industry.

DNA sequencing is becoming better and cheaper. So are AI tools that can decode the results. It’s time to build a genomic surveillance network that can detect emerging outbreaks at their source.

Gas vesicles are protein shells that reflect soundwaves. They were first discovered in lake-dwelling microbes in Germany but now enable scientists to “hear” individual cells within the body.

A nanopore sequencer is a tiny device that can read DNA with high accuracy. Its invention, made possible by merging hardware with machine learning, holds lessons for other measurement tools.

How the mouse found its way from Victorian novelty to a biomedical mainstay.