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Biotech

Deep Cut

This Barnacle-Inspired Glue Seals Bleeding Organs in Seconds

Max G. Levy

Structures

Without Code for DeepMind’s Protein AI, One Lab Wrote Its Own

Grace Huckins

Molecular Biology

DNA Has Four Bases. Some Viruses Swap in a Fifth

Jordana Cepelewicz

Paceholder

This Device Could Tune Your Heart—Then Dissolve Away

Max G. Levy

Biosensing

A Graphene ‘Camera’ Images the Activity of Living Heart Cells

Karmela Padavic-Callaghan

The Manhattan Project

When the Next Animal Plague Hits, Can This Lab Stop It?

Geoff Manaugh and Nicola Twilley

Smooth Operator

The Race to Put Silk in Nearly Everything

Max G. Levy

Touching Story

This Brain-Controlled Robotic Arm Can Twist, Grasp—and Feel

Max G. Levy

WIRED Q&A

The Code Breaker Is the Crispr Chronicle You Need to Read

Megan Molteni

Genomes

Million-Year-Old DNA Rewrites Mammoths' Evolutionary Tree

John Timmer, Ars Technica

New Leaf

Nature Makes Wood. Could a Lab Make It Better?

Keith Gillogly

Glow Up

Forget Blood—Your Skin Might Know If You’re Sick

Max G. Levy

Neck Tech

A New Way to Restore Hand Mobility—With an Electrified Patch

Max G. Levy

Year in Review

2020 Was a Breakout Year for Crispr

Megan Molteni

Genetics

Cops Are Getting a New Tool For Family-Tree Sleuthing

Megan Molteni

Bugging Out

Meet the Microbes Living on Da Vinci’s Iconic Sketches

Matt Simon

Public Health

Why It’s a Big Deal If the First Covid Vaccine Is ‘Genetic’

Megan Molteni

Gene Editing

In Embryos, Crispr Can Cut Out Whole Chromosomes—That's Bad

Megan Molteni

Viruses

A Common Plant Virus Is an Unlikely Ally in the War on Cancer

Daniel Oberhaus

Genetics

Your ‘Ethnicity Estimate’ Doesn’t Mean What You Think It Does

Caitlin Harrington