MIT Technology Review
Longevity medicine: Exploitation or an innovative approach to health?
Establishing a new discipline of medicine is no mean feat. Longevity doctors have started to make progress by establishing learning ...
‘Three parent babies’ aren’t new. Here is what science has accomplished so far
[E]ight babies have been born in the UK following an experimental form of IVF that involves DNA from three people ...
Viewpoint: Jim O’Neill: The controversial longevity promoter and now RFK, Jr.’s second in command stirs worry in the public health community
As Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s new right-hand man, [Jim] O’Neill is expected to wield authority at health agencies that fund ...
AI agents are fast gaining autonomy. What could go right and wrong?
LLM agents don’t have much of a track record yet, but to hear CEOs tell it, they will transform the ...
Viewpoint: The hubris of tech billionaires’ ‘ideology of technological salvation’
Sam Altman, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, and others may have slightly different goals and ambitions in the near term, but ...
AI chatbots talk dirty
AI companions like Replika are designed to engage in intimate exchanges, but people use general-purpose chatbots for sex talk too, despite ...
A promising annual shot might provide long term protection against HIV
Every year, my colleagues and I put together a list of what we think are the top 10 breakthrough technologies ...
Viewpoint: What impact will Trump’s budget cuts have on U.S. ability to track and adapt to climate change
Over the last few months, … there’s been an explosion of news about proposed budget cuts to science in the ...
Gene editing embryos: Crypto billionaire Brian Armstrong funding ethically controversial project
Brian Armstrong, the billionaire CEO of the cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase, says he’s ready to fund a US startup focused on ...
Longevity drug haven: Montana is now the U.S. epicenter for the use of unapproved drugs and experimental therapies
A bill that allows medical clinics to sell unproven treatments has been passed in Montana...doctors can apply for a license ...
CRISPR chaos: Court ruling reignites patent war, could upend who is credited with the breakthrough
[T]he US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit said scientists Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier will get another chance ...
CRISPR pig joins a shortlist of genetically modified animals approved by the FDA for human consumption
Most pigs in the US are confined to factory farms where they can be afflicted by a nasty respiratory virus ...
Nuclear energy renaissance: China leapfrogs the U.S. and other reticent western countries
China has once again beat everyone else to a clean energy milestone—its new nuclear reactor is reportedly one of the ...
AI therapy shows promise in addressing depression at less expense and equal efficacy than a human therapist
uaThe first clinical trial of a therapy bot that uses generative AI suggests it was as effective as human therapy ...
Human ‘bodyoids’: We will soon be able to manufacture brain-less human bodies to generate replacement organs
Why do we hear about medical breakthroughs in mice, but rarely see them translate into cures for human disease? ...
Resurrecting dead species—Despite the hype over the dire wolf and the wooly mammoth, chorongenetics poses immense challenges
Colossal Biosciences, the biotech company behind [these] woolly mice [says the] eventual goal is to modify elephants with enough mammoth ...
100 people globally use brain-computer interfaces in clinical trials. Scaling up commercially is on the horizon
Implanted BCIs [brain-computer interfaces] are electrodes put in paralyzed people’s brains so they can use imagined movements to send commands ...
AI poised to revolutionize farming. Here’s how
In agriculture, AI is already helping farmers to monitor crop health, tailor the delivery of inputs, and make harvesting more ...
Humans are in the crosshairs of a potential bird flu pandemic. In the age of RFK, Jr., are we prepared?
Scientists are increasingly concerned about a potential bird flu pandemic. The question is, given all the enduring uncertainty around the ...
Musk’s brain streaming Neuralink is far from commercialization
[Neuralink] is not yet a commercial product. The current studies are small-scale—they are true experiments, explorations of how the device ...
‘Digital twins’: 3-D digital organs are poised to revolutionize medical treatments
“Digital twins” are the same size and shape as the real thing. They work in the same way. But they ...
5 hot new trends for AI in 2025
[W]hat’s coming in 2025 [in AI]? We’re going to ignore the obvious here: You can bet that agents and smaller, ...
Will AI robots ever be safe enough to fully welcome them into our homes?
The world might seem to be on the brink of a humanoid-robot heyday. [B]reakthroughs in artificial intelligence promise the type ...
Poop is helping to feed the world. Really
A new industrial facility in suburban Seattle is giving off a whiff of futuristic technology. It can safely treat fecal ...
Plants, cells, and microbes could help clean the environment but consumers seem indifferent
The challenge of our food system’s climate impact is only getting more tricky: richer countries tend to eat more meat, and ...
35% greenhouse emissions: Agriculture is one of the largest contributors to climate change. How can we turn that around?
Plants rely on nitrogen to grow, but they fail to take up a lot of the nitrogen in fertilizers applied ...
‘I feel like it’s a little bit of health marketing bullshit’: Exosomes might not help you stay young but they might have other science benefits
Any cell biologist ... will tell you what exosomes really are: tiny little blobs that bud off from cells and ...
‘There is a coming revolution in CRISPR’: Gene editing pioneer Jennifer Doudna anticipates focus on crops and climate change
Jennifer Doudna, one of the inventors of the breakthrough gene-editing tool CRISPR, says the technology will help the world grapple ...
