Biotech

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

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

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

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

Frances Arnold, the Caltech scientist who shared the 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, says evolution can show us how to solve problems of sustainability.

Parents can use a digital tool at home to detect fluid behind the eardrum

An emerging class of drug could send some of medicine’s most troublesome protein targets to the cellular rubbish bin

A prototype detects whom you are listening to and amplifies only that speaker’s voice; a potential solution to the “cocktail party problem”

We now have unprecedented amounts of information on our own genetics, thanks to at-home DNA testing kits. But what does all of this information do to us?

New technique creates working models—with a little help from grocery-store food coloring