
Your Next Flight's Fuel Could Be Made By Microbes
The aviation industry is getting ready to embrace fuel produced by fermentation
Emily Waltz is a freelance science journalist specializing in biotech and the business of science.

Your Next Flight's Fuel Could Be Made By Microbes
The aviation industry is getting ready to embrace fuel produced by fermentation

Man with Parkinson’s Walks Smoothly thanks to an Experimental Spinal Implant
Electrical stimulation to the lower spine has improved the mobility of a man with Parkinson’s disease for the past two years, but researchers say larger clinical trials are needed to assess the device

Does Brain Stimulation Boost Memory and Focus? Huge Study Tries to Settle Debate
An analysis of more than 100 studies of noninvasive electrical brain stimulation probes whether the controversial technology works

This Mushroom Leather Is Being Made into Hermès Handbags
A bioreactor-made material is being marketed as an animal-friendly leather alternative that also aims to help save the planet

CRISPR-Edited Tomatoes Are Supposed to Help You Chill Out
The first commercial food product to use the CRISPR gene-editing technique increases levels of GABA in tomatoes

No Bones, No Scales, No Eyeballs: Appetite Grows for Lab-Grown Seafood
Cell-based fish taste the same as their wild and farmed counterparts. But will it ever make economic sense to produce this kind of protein?

COVID Vaccine Makers Prepare for a Variant Worse Than Delta
Companies are updating vaccines and testing them on people to prepare for whatever comes next in the pandemic

Lab-Made Chicken Reaches Select Diners in Singapore
Club-goers in the island city-state take first bites of slaughter-free chicken nuggets grown in bioreactors

First Genetically Engineered Salmon Sold in Canada
US firm AquaBounty Technologies says that its transgenic fish has hit the market after a 25-year wait

U.S. Reviews Plan to Infect Mosquitoes with Bacteria to Stop Disease
Biotech firm seeks government approval to market mosquitoes as a pesticide to prevent spread of Zika and dengue viruses

Gene-Edited CRISPR Mushroom Escapes U.S. Regulation
Fungus is the first organism engineered by CRISPR–Cas9 to get a green-light from the U.S. government

Offshore Wind May Power the Future
Not only are offshore winds stronger but landlubbers have fewer objections to turbines almost invisible from the coast