Biotech

New tools are helping democratize bioinformatics

Maximum-security biolab is part of a plan to build more of these facilities across the country

The landmark ruling will have ripple effects

Three judges have released their decision

Edited embryos should be allowed in specific contexts, National Academies say

Ig Nobel Prize creator Marc Abrahams shows off this unusual disaster-preparedness device before a night discussing humor and science at the 92nd Street Y.

Chemists create micro swimmers that can be controlled by light

Innovation and discovery as chronicled in Scientific American

Millions of patients depend on a rare radioactive form of one element to scan them for disease. But the old nuclear reactors that make it are shutting down

Trevor Mundel, president of global health at the Gates Foundation, talks to Scientific American editor-in-chief Mariette DiChristina about the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) and the efforts to create vaccine platforms for rapid responses to epidemics.

Knitting and weaving artificial muscles could help create soft exoskeletons that people with disabilities could wear under their clothes to help them walk, according to new research

Last-minute proposal would address CRISPR and other cutting-edge technologies