Biotech

Disruptive solutions that are poised to change the world

The prospect of focusing the beams without destroying tissue might someday diagnose or even restore faulty brain circuits 

The Food and Drug Administration, Sarepta and the case of the missing drug data

Wartime clinicians have taught us a lot about fighting infection

European doctors use gene therapy to correct an inherited disease and replace 80 percent of Syrian refugee's epidermis

Eggs used to grow viruses for flu shots trigger changes that leave people vulnerable

The controversial approach aims to rejuvenate old tissue

Experts debate what amateur scientists could accomplish with the powerful DNA editing tool—and whether its ready availability is cause for concern 

Neuroscientist Christof Koch calls for a “crash program” in brain technologies to make us smarter

Biofilms—3-D mats of bacteria—kill as many people as cancer does and fight off antibiotics. Now scientists are turning biofilms’ own weapons against them

The audit recommends an overhaul of the Select Agent Program

This tool could, in theory, fix genetic mistakes that lead to about 15,000 illnesses