Biotechnology-and-health Articles

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December 05, 2025

The ads that sell the sizzle of genetic trait discrimination

One day this fall, I watched an electronic sign outside the Broadway-Lafayette subway station in Manhattan switch seamlessly between an ad for makeup...

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October 30, 2025

How conspiracy theories infiltrated the doctor’s office

As anyone who has googled their symptoms and convinced themselves that they’ve got a brain tumor will attest, the internet makes it very easy to...

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October 21, 2025

New noninvasive endometriosis tests are on the rise

Shantana Hazel often thought her insides might fall out during menstruation. It took 14 years of stabbing pain before she ultimately received a...

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October 20, 2025

This retina implant lets people with vision loss do a crossword puzzle

Science Corporation - a competitor to Neuralink founded by the former president of Elon Musk’s brain-interface venture - has leapfrogged its rival...

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October 16, 2025

The race to make the perfect baby is creating an ethical mess

Consider, if you will, the translucent blob in the eye of a microscope: a human blastocyst, the biological specimen that emerges just five days or so...

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October 15, 2025

The quest to find out how our bodies react to extreme temperatures

It’s the 25th of June and I’m shivering in my lab-issued underwear in Fort Worth, Texas. Libby Cowgill, an anthropologist in a furry parka, has...

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October 14, 2025

How aging clocks can help us understand why we age—and if we can reverse it

Be honest: Have you ever looked up someone from your childhood on social media with the sole intention of seeing how they’ve aged? One of my...

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September 08, 2025

2025 Innovator of the Year: Sneha Goenka for developing an ultra-fast sequencing technology

Sneha Goenka is one of MIT Technology Review’s 2025 Innovators Under 35. Meet the rest of this year’s honorees. Up to a quarter of children entering...

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September 05, 2025

Putin says organ transplants could grant immortality. Not quite.

This week I’m writing from Manchester, where I’ve been attending a conference on aging. Wednesday was full of talks and presentations by scientists...

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July 29, 2025

Exclusive: A record-breaking baby has been born from an embryo that’s over 30 years old

A baby boy born over the weekend holds the new record for the “oldest baby.” Thaddeus Daniel Pierce, who arrived on July 26, developed from an embryo...

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