Category: 7. SciTech

Google DeepMind’s AlphaFold has already revolutionized scientists’ understanding of proteins. Now, the ability of the platform to design safe and effective drugs is about to be put to the test.

Isomorphic Labs, the UK-based biotech spinoff of Google DeepMind, will soon begin human trials of…

Two companies that launched last year with plans to create gene-edited babies have already shut down, citing money issues and internal conflict.

One of them, Manhattan Genomics of New York, closed abruptly shortly after announcing a team of scientific advisers in October that included a prominent…

Just a few weeks ago, I had a long-haul flight to Europe from the East Coast. As I packed and prepared, excited about what was…

The goal, he says, is to create thousands of sperm from a standard tissue biopsy. The company has had a high success rate in generating sperm from dozens of tissue samples.

Pastuszak says early testing shows the lab-made sperm look “effectively identical” to naturally made sperm. The…

Cocaine pollution can affect the behavior of fish—altering, for example, the way Atlantic salmon move through their environment, prompting them to swim farther and disperse over a wider area.

So finds a recent study by a research team coordinated by Griffith University, the Swedish University…