April 4, 2025
(Texas Monthly) – An Austin-based health-optimization chain plans a national rollout as interest in the industry—still trying to define itself—booms. Humanaut Health, which opened its first location last fall, in Austin, hopes to build a chain of concierge medical clinics … Read More
April 3, 2025
(MIT Technology Review) – Neuralink, Synchron, and Neuracle are expanding clinical trials and trying to zero in on an actual product. Implanted BCIs are electrodes put in paralyzed people’s brains so they can use imagined movements to send commands from … Read More
April 1, 2025
(Nature) – Improvements to brain–computer interfaces are bringing the technology closer to natural conversational speed. A brain-reading implant that translates neural signals into audible speech has allowed a woman with paralysis to hear what she intends to say nearly instantly. … Read More
March 31, 2025
(MedPage Today) – Scientists have developed a device that can translate thoughts about speech into spoken words in real time. Although it’s still experimental, they hope the brain-computer interface could someday help give voice to those unable to speak. A … Read More
March 31, 2025
(MIT Technology Review) – Although it may seem like science fiction, recent technological progress has pushed this concept into the realm of plausibility. Pluripotent stem cells, one of the earliest cell types to form during development, can give rise to … Read More
March 31, 2025
(Reuters) – A tie-up between a Chinese research institute and tech company said on Monday that it aims to implant its brain chip into 13 people by the end of this year, in a move that could see it overtake … Read More
March 28, 2025
(Wired) – In an advance for treating male infertility, researchers transplanted a patient with his own sperm-forming stem cells that were collected from testicular tissue when he was a child. Jaiwen Hsu was an active 11-year-old when he developed pain … Read More
March 28, 2025
(Medscape) – A multidisciplinary team from China has successfully transplanted a gene-modified pig liver into a human recipient diagnosed with brain death. During a 10-day observation period, the porcine liver produced bile and porcine albumin, maintained stable blood flow, and … Read More
March 28, 2025
(MIT Technology Review) – Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: A tech company accumulates a ton of user data, hoping to figure out a business model later. That business model never arrives, the company goes under, and the … Read More
March 27, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – He Jiankui stands by a controversial research approach that landed him in prison as he aims to tackle Alzheimer’s disease Chinese scientist He Jiankui set off global outrage and landed in prison after he skirted ethical … Read More
March 26, 2025
(New York Times) – The agency OK’d an artificial vessel to restore blood flow in patients, even though its own scientists flagged questionable study results and potentially fatal ruptures of the product. When the biotech company Humacyte designed a study … Read More
March 26, 2025
(NBC News) – Chinese researchers are reporting new steps in the quest for animal-to-human organ transplants — with a successful pig kidney transplant and a hint Wednesday that pig livers might eventually be useful, too. A Chinese patient is the third person in world … Read More
March 26, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – Anne Wojcicki aims to buy the assets of her failed DNA-testing company after her prior bids were rejected The company she co-founded, 23andMe, has burned through more than $1 billion and laid off more than half … Read More
March 18, 2025
(Associated Press) – Sarepta Therapeutics said Tuesday that a patient died while taking its closely watched gene therapy for muscular dystrophy, sending company shares plummeting in morning trading. The young man died of acute liver injury, a known side effect, … Read More
March 13, 2025
(CNN) – An Australian man lived for 100 days with an artificial titanium heart while he awaited a donor transplant, the longest period to date of someone with the technology. The patient, a man in his 40s who declined to … Read More
March 12, 2025
(New York Times) – Some scientists are confident that organs from genetically modified pigs will one day be routinely transplanted into humans. But substantial ethical questions remain. They are delivered by C-section to protect them from viruses that sows can … Read More
March 11, 2025
(Texas Monthly) – Lamm and Shapiro were quick to highlight the utility of the mammouse’s creation. The Colossal Woolly Mouse, though radically cute, is not all that radical from a gene editing perspective. Its creation is not as impactful as, … Read More
March 10, 2025
(Wired) – Elon Musk’s brain implant company, Neuralink, has filed applications with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) to exclusively own the names Telepathy, Telekinesis, and others for future products. Neuralink, which Musk cofounded in 2016, is developing … Read More
March 6, 2025
(Australian Broadcasting Co via MSN) – On a warm Melbourne day late last year, hundreds of thousands of live human brain cells sat inside a box on a table in Brunswick. While the neurons were too small to see with … Read More
March 6, 2025
(Washington Post via MSN) – Cellular reprogramming is now hailed by its supporters as the most promising scientific approach to improving human healthspans and lifespans. Proponents claim it has the potential to reshape how — and whether — we grow … Read More
March 5, 2025
(Science) – Risks and benefits of mirror life, AI, synthetic cells debated at anniversary of the landmark 1975 meeting Half a century ago, molecular biologists came together up the hill from the beach in a conference center—made up of exquisite … Read More
March 4, 2025
(NBC News) – Scientists have been genetically engineering mice since the 1970s, but new technologies like CRISPR “make it a lot more efficient and easier.” Extinction is still forever, but scientists at the biotech company Colossal Biosciences are trying what they say … Read More
March 4, 2025
(Gizmodo) – Over 90% of patients with severely damaged corneas responded to the treatment in an early clinical trial. The next frontier of stem cell transplantation might involve the eyes. In research out today, scientists report that an experimental therapy … Read More
February 28, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – Half of all pancreatic cancer patients live less than a year after diagnosis. But researchers say there is potential for change. Researchers estimate by 2030 that deaths will overtake those for colorectal cancer, as other cancers … Read More
February 28, 2025
(Knowable Magazine) – Can genetically modified animals help ease the shortage of organs? After years of research into xenotransplantation, the field is at a turning point — yet risks and ethical issues remain. Over the past few years, a handful … Read More
