Biotech

Cortical Labs says the stunt points toward a new kind of low-power computing—and perhaps a new way to study neurological drugs

An electronic retinal implant has improved vision in people with age-related macular degeneration—but it isn’t a full restoration, and it didn’t improve participants’ quality of life

How a father’s love, entrepreneurship and tech advances could lead to a working artificial pancreas

Houseplants become rechargeable night-lights after injection with tiny phosphor particles

Analyzing embryo movements in uteruslike environments could offer clues to improving the success rate of in vitro fertilization

Colossal Bioscience says it has “de-extincted” the dire wolf, but other scientists disagree and say more important conservation science is being lost in all the hype

Titanium hearts could serve as a stopgap for people with heart failure who are waiting for a donor organ

On its quest to bring back the extinct woolly mammoth, Colossal Biosciences has developed the woolly mouse

This tiny instrument lets users taste things—without actually eating them—by releasing a combination of chemicals that reconstruct different tastes. But replicating associated smells and textures will take some time

A genetic tweak keeps potatoes efficient in the heat

Transplanted chloroplasts endured two days inside animal cells—and got to work

Breakthroughs in synthetic biology could create mirror versions of natural molecules, with devastating consequences for life on Earth