Biotech

Life’s information-storage system is being adapted to handle massive amounts of information

It's the fungus mushrooms are made of, but it can also produce everything from plastics to plant-based meat to a scaffolding for growing organs—and much more

It can flag pathogens long before patients show up in clinics

It’s behind everything from narrowly targeted drug delivery to microchips you can swallow

The proposal follows a Chinese scientist who claimed to have created twins from edited embryos last year

Changes could endanger promising medical research

Policy also requires ethics review for any grant applications to the National Institutes of Health that involve fetal tissue

Some scientists had called for lifting the ban to allow the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to evaluate the new technologies

The gene a Chinese scientist attempted to modify in twin girls last year has been associated with premature death

Stimulating nerves in the spleens of mice with ultrasound reduced their inflammatory responses and arthritis symptoms

How DNA is used to store—and generate—information at extreme scales

A device that converts the heart’s mechanical energy into electrical energy has been successfully tested in pigs