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We are entering the era of artificial intelligence—how should we get ready for it?

Will Knight | MIT Technology Review | 
If the US were to draw up a new AI master plan, what should it aim to do? Funding AI ...
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Gene therapy and rare diseases: ‘Is curing patients a sustainable business model?’

An analyst at Goldman Sachs asked a troubling question...about gene therapy. “Is curing patients a sustainable business model?” In social media, reactions ...
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Viewpoint: We need to know if CRISPR works in monkeys and possible off-target effects before we start human trials

Emily Mullin | MIT Technology Review | 
Sometime this year, people in the US and Europe will start getting treated for diseases using the gene-editing tool CRISPR, but ...
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The story behind the looming $30-billion-a-year synthetic DNA data storage market

Bryan Walsh | MIT Technology Review | 
[Emily] Leproust is cofounder and CEO of Twist Bioscience, a five-year-old startup that is, by some estimates, the world’s largest ...
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MIT Media Lab halts relationship with startup Nectome over storing their brains in fatal ‘brain uploads’

The MIT Media Lab will sever ties with a brain-embalming company that promoted euthanasia to people hoping for digital immortality ...
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Precision education: DNA test for intelligence could be on the horizon

Ready for a world in which a $50 DNA test can predict your odds of earning a PhD or forecast ...
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Improved ‘brains’ grant robots dexterity that could soon rival humans

Will Knight | MIT Technology Review | 
It might not look that special, but the robot above is, according to a new measure, the most dexterous one ...
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Battling ‘fatty liver’ disease obesity by identifying and gene-silencing mutations

The search for mutations that conjure medical superpowers has turned up people who are resistant to liver disease, even if ...
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Building an Alzheimer’s early warning system through artificial intelligence

Emily Mullin | MIT Technology Review | 
[A flat white box attached to the wall] knows when [David Graham] gets out of bed, gets dressed, walks to ...
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Thousand-year mind preservation with a twist: Startup Nectome’s procedure is ‘100 percent fatal’

The startup accelerator Y Combinator is known for supporting audacious companies in its popular three-month boot camp. There’s never been ...
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Counting on Trump: Approval of biotech animals may rely on circumventing FDA

The lobbying effort to get the FDA out of the way of biotech animals is under way. ... [Recombinetics] is ...
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Saving critically ill babies through lightning-fast genome sequencing

Emily Mullin | MIT Technology Review | 
Usually it takes weeks for scientists to sequence an entire genome. But [neurologist Jennifer] Friedman and her colleagues at Rady [Children’s ...
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DNA fortune telling: Genetic tests could determine disease destiny from birth

Antonio Regalado | MIT Technology Review | 
There’s never been data available on as many people’s genes as there is today. And that wealth of information is ...
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Dystopian ‘Black Mirror’ scenarios predict dark future for artificial intelligence

Will Knight | MIT Technology Review | 
[A] new report by more than 20 researchers from the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, OpenAI, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation warns that ...
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‘Fully customizable’ genome: Replacing yeast’s 12.5 million base pairs piece by piece

Bryan Walsh | MIT Technology Review | 
Homo sapiens has had a tight relationship with Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the unicellular fungus better known as brewer’s yeast. … That doesn’t mean S ...
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Huntington’s patients find new hope in ‘gene-silencing’ drug

Emily Mullin | MIT Technology Review | 
Huntington’s is a genetic disorder that causes nerve cells in the brain to gradually break down, leading to irreversible brain ...
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Perfecting microbes to biomanufacture cells like computer chips

Monique Brouillete | MIT Technology Review | 
[Researcher Alec] Nielsen heads a startup called Asimov that is trying to automate the design of sophisticated genetic modifications. Its software, called ...
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Searching for sleep: Genome mining project looks for insomnia links

Antonio Regalado | MIT Technology Review | 
In a genetic study of unprecedented size, scientists have searched for inherited causes of insomnia in the DNA [of] 1,310,010 ...
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Gene therapy setback? Animal deaths in treating muscular dystrophy spark new concerns over high doses

Antonio Regalado | MIT Technology Review | 
An influential scientist involved in gene therapy’s biggest setback, the death of a study volunteer 19 years ago, has issued a ...
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8 common cancers could be detected early with $500 blood test

Emily Mullin | MIT Technology Review | 
A simple-to-take test that tells if you have a tumor lurking, and even where it is in your body, is ...
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CRISPR first in US: Human cancer patients to be treated with gene-editing tool

Emily Mullin | MIT Technology Review | 
The first human test in the U.S. involving the gene-editing tool CRISPR could begin at any time and will employ ...
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Rural-urban divide: Groundbreaking gene therapies could exacerbate inequality in cancer care

Emily Mullin | MIT Technology Review | 
Two new cancer treatments have shown miraculous cures, but if you happen to live in Arkansas or Montana, or a ...
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Can CRISPR gene-edited ‘terminator bulls’ revolutionize the beef industry?

Andrew Rosenblum | MIT Technology Review | 
After a year of trying, [Australian geneticist Alison Van Eenennaam's lab at the University of California succeeded in using] the ...
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Is President Trump pro-GMO?

Antonio Regalado | MIT Technology Review | 
“We are streamlining regulations that have blocked cutting-edge biotechnology, setting free our farmers to innovate, thrive, and to grow,” Trump told a ...
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Beyond GMOs: Gene editing’s potential to transform food and farming depends on public acceptance

David Rotman | MIT Technology Review | 
[The following is part of a letter from the editor of MIT Technology Review, David Rotman.] Decades of fretting over the ...
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Why 2018 might not be a banner year for CRISPR gene editing in humans

Emily Mullin | MIT Technology Review | 
Ever since scientists first used CRISPR-Cas9 to edit living human cells in 2013, they’ve been saying that the possibilities for ...
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Will new wave of gene-edited crops ease public fear of GMO food?

Antonio Regalado | MIT Technology Review | 
To many scientists, the potential of gene editing seems nearly limitless, offering a new way to rapidly create plants that ...
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California cherry farmers look to ‘gene drive’ technology to kill invasive fruit flies

Antonio Regalado | MIT Technology Review | 
Since it first appeared in Northern California in 2008, the spotted-wing drosophila, a type of fruit fly native to Asia, ...
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