Biotechnology

A New Implant for Blind People Jacks Directly Into the Brain

Researchers have successfully bypassed…

Buyer Beware of This $1 Million Gene Therapy for Aging

Offshore tests by a startup seek to lengthen…

Why the Paper on the CRISPR Babies Stayed Secret for So Long

The report describing the creation of the…

The US Military Is Trying to Read Minds

A new DARPA research program is developing brain-computer…

Meet the Wounded Veteran Who Got a Penis Transplant

He nearly lost it all to an IED blast in…

This Girl’s Dramatic Story Shows Hyper-Personalized Medicine Is Possible — and Costly

Meet the Artificial Embryos Being Called ‘Uncanny’ and ‘Spectacular’

Researchers are getting close to…

Biohackers Are Pirating a Cheap Version of a Million-Dollar Gene Therapy

A group of independent…

Don’t Change Your DNA at Home, Says America’s First CRISPR Law

A California ‘human biohacking’ bill…

Facebook Is Funding Brain Experiments to Create a Device That Reads Your Mind

Big tech firms are…