Biotech

Research is outpacing regulation to govern artificial-intelligence-designed biology

This artificial intelligence system largely accomplished the task it was built to solve, and researchers outside DeepMind have already been carrying its work forward

Using viruslike particles to deliver therapies safely and effectively

Building models of the human brain to better understand disease

The new open-source atlas, generated by an AI tool called ESMFold2, vastly increases the known protein universe

Varda’s plan to develop medicines in microgravity has its advantages, but it requires a big up-front cost

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