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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?

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

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

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.

In the 2020s, nobody paid much attention to foundation models. But sixty years later, they were being used to design medicines, gene therapies and, eventually, new forms of life.

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?