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Biotech

Synthetic Biology

Could Life Use a Longer Genetic Code? Maybe, but It’s Unlikely

Yasemin Saplakoglu

Snot Bots

These Nanobots Can Swim Around a Wound and Kill Bacteria

Max G. Levy

Public Health

Australia Moves Ahead Cautiously With '3-Parent IVF'

Emily Mullin

New Tricks

This Blood Test Detects Cancer in Dogs. But Do You Want to Know?

Max G. Levy

Guiding Light

Mitochondria Double as Tiny Lenses in the Eye

Yasemin Saplakoglu

Eye Spy

The First Drug-Releasing Contact Lens Is Here

Emily Mullin

Multiple Choice

To Test Cancer Drugs, These Scientists Grew ‘Avatars’ of Tumors

Max G. Levy

Digital Double

The Most Complete Simulation of a Cell Probes Life’s Hidden Rules

Yasemin Saplakoglu

Genetics

Police Used a Rape Survivor's DNA to Link Her to Another Crime

Emily Mullin

Immunology

A Twist on Stem Cell Transplants Could Help Blood Cancer Patients

Max G. Levy

Buzz Off

Could Crispr Flip the Switch on Insecticide Resistance?

Emily Mullin

Zoo Story

Scientists Capture Airborne Animal DNA for the First Time

Eric Niiler

Future of Reality

Welcome to the (Synthetic) Meatspace

Amy Webb

AI-ntibiotics

An AI Finds Superbug-Killing Potential in Human Proteins

Max G. Levy

RE:WIRED

Moderna's CEO on the Fight Over the Covid-19 Vaccine's Future

Brent Rose

Screen Protector

States Are Toughening Up Privacy Laws for At-Home DNA Tests

Emily Mullin

Backchannel

Blood, Lies, and a Drug Trials Lab Gone Bad

Brendan I. Koerner

Genetics

The Complex Truth About ‘Junk DNA’

Jake Buehler

Neuroscience

‘Neurograins’ Could be the Next Brain-Computer Interfaces

Emily Mullin

Sperm Germ

An Experimental Birth Control Attacks Sperm Like a Virus

Sara Harrison