September 7, 2026
(Financial Times) – Executives and biosecurity experts are concerned that future models could help users create novel viruses or bioweapons AI groups are racing to address the risk that future models could help users create novel viruses or bioweapons, amid … Read More
September 4, 2026
(NBC News) – The transplant led to “sustained dialysis independence” for nearly nine months before Tim Andrews, now 68, received a human kidney earlier this year, according to The Lancet. A New Hampshire man, at death’s door 1 ½ years … Read More
September 1, 2026
(The Guardian) – Giant burrowing cockroaches with added cameras and medical injectors are being tested as potential ‘first responders’ in earthquakes For people trapped under rubble in an earthquake or similar disaster, the arrival of a fleet of cockroaches could … Read More
August 28, 2026
(New Scientist) – A number of drugs designed to prevent muscle loss and boost muscle growth are being tested in clinical trials. Columnist Michael Le Page looks at whether building and maintaining muscles is about to get a whole lot … Read More
August 25, 2026
(TIME) – If you’ve been excitedly awaiting the return of the woolly mammoth, you’ll have to be patient a little longer. It was in 2021 that the newly established, Dallas-based company Colossal Biosciences announced plans to use modern gene-editing technology … Read More
August 24, 2026
(MIT Technology Review) – Patents can only name humans as inventors. For now. Insilico leads a pack of companies using AI to rapidly come up with drug ideas humans might never think of, potentially speeding the race to new cures. … Read More
August 21, 2026
(RAND) – The convergence of artificial intelligence (AI) and biology offers great promise for medicine and public health, including the potential to yield transformative societal benefits. Yet this same convergence could introduce serious global health and national security risks. As … Read More
August 19, 2026
(NYT) – All of this was done outside high containment, two rungs short of the sort of precautions reserved for the deadliest pathogens. Leading virologists rang the alarm, saying that the level of safety was inadequate for a new virus … Read More
August 13, 2026
(Wired) – Silicon Valley companies are already working on neurotechnology products that track your brain activity. The next privacy frontier might be the things you only think. All brain-reading technologies work on the same basic principles: They first record the … Read More
August 12, 2026
(Wired) – Mini human brains are being grown in labs all over the world. Soon, they could outthink neural networks. I’m going to let you in on a secret. Every cell in your body has the potential to get smarter. … Read More
August 11, 2026
(WSJ) – Artificial-intelligence systems have been displaying some eye-opening new abilities in recent weeks: breaking out of their enclosures, hacking other companies, lying to people. And now, for the first time, an AI model has created a new virus. A … Read More
August 10, 2026
(The Guardian) – Researchers say breakthrough offers hope for new medicines but also raises urgent biosecurity questions Scientists have made the first viruses designed by artificial intelligence in a milestone that raises hopes for new medicines but also concerns over … Read More
August 7, 2026
(NYT) – Scientists trained artificial intelligence on libraries of DNA and then asked the model to create recipes for viral genomes. Sixteen of them were viable, yielding new viruses. Synthesizing viruses from scratch is hardly new. Researchers long ago learned … Read More
July 31, 2026
(Wired) – The latest version of Google DeepMind’s AI model includes a significant jump into “physical AGI.” But plopping AI into the real world comes with risks. Google DeepMind just released a new version of its artificial intelligence model Gemini, … Read More
July 30, 2026
(Nature) – Researchers are alarmed that the procedure, which has not been rigorously studied, is being advertised by clinics around the world. A small number of fertility clinics around the world are offering a controversial treatment: a procedure to furnish … Read More
July 28, 2026
(Nature) – People who give tissue samples for biomedical research might have no idea that their cells are being used for biocomputers. The workings of the brain are often compared to those of a computer. Some researchers are testing this … Read More
July 27, 2026
(NYT) – In a recent study, scientists devised a way of reversing the buildup of compounds that lead to some age-related diseases. The buildup of AGEs is a hallmark of the aging process, making tissues like collagen sticky and rigid … Read More
July 27, 2026
(STAT News) – Europeans can now receive a device that can partially restore their vision loss. Americans may not have to wait long to get it, either. Science Corporation announced Wednesday that European regulators had approved the commercial sale of … Read More
July 24, 2026
(Nature) – Researchers used artificial intelligence to design functional CRISPR enzymes not seen in nature. Scientists have harnessed artificial-intelligence models to create synthetic CRISPR proteins that edit the genome more efficiently than their naturally occurring counterparts. Such synthetic CRISPR systems … Read More
July 21, 2026
(BBC) – That’s because Ruohola-Baker is part of a growing number of scientists worldwide harnessing the power of regenerative medicine to replace traditional dental procedures for the millions of people who are missing teeth and managing tooth pain. If their … Read More
July 15, 2026
(The Guardian) – Scientists are trying to recreate the biology that lets animals survive months without food or water, in hopes of making deep-space travel possible Long-term space travel is bad for your health. Very bad. Being in space exposes … Read More
July 15, 2026
(Nature) – Sci-fi procedure generates immature human sperm from stem cells, nurturing them on a mouse’s kidney. It sounds like science fiction: collecting a person’s blood cells, engineering them so they eventually transform into immature sperm, and then incubating them … Read More
July 14, 2026
(CNN) – A newer, more precise form of CRISPR, known as base editing, can change a single letter (or base) of DNA at a time. Base editing was used for the first time in a 2022 clinical trial to modify … Read More
July 13, 2026
(WSJ) – Western biotechs get new playbook with tighter controls to stay ahead of ultraefficient pharmaceutical pipeline overseas For decades, young biotechs broadcast their science publicly to attract investment. Today, more are going dark to keep rivals, many of which … Read More
July 8, 2026
(Wired) – The lab will beam back data to train AI models to predict how proteins behind age-related diseases like Alzheimer’s and certain cancers behave. Space is becoming the next frontier in longevity research. A British startup just launched self-run … Read More
