Biotech

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

Applying network theory to HIV’s structure has revealed the most valuable—and vulnerable—parts of the virus 

The IUD is held up as the gold standard of contraception. That says a lot about the slothful pace of innovation

Technical advances are driving a boom in egg freezing, which promises to let women put off pregnancy indefinitely. But will the science live up to the hype?

A new algorithm accurately identified more than 90 percent of people who would advance to an Alzheimer’s diagnosis in about six years 

New study gets closer to restoring natural communication for those who cannot speak