Biotech
When Drug Startups Make Big Pharma Look Like the Good Guy
In which a recently formed pharmaceutical company run by a disgraced hedge fund manager starts charging $750 a pill for an essential drug.
Scientists Have Figured Out How to Make Sugar into Narcotics
There’s a new sort of drug cave in town and it has a hell of a lot more in common with an Au Bon Pain than some back alley in Shanghai.
The Dawn of GM Humans: BOY-1 Creator HS Tak on Our Inevitable Genetic Future
A new comic book series from IDW explores humanity’s next evolutionary leap.
Researchers Love E. Coli Because They Can Make It Poop Plastic
Modified microbes have the potential to help reduce our carbon footprint and our reliance on oil at the same time.
Play Our Biohacking, Activity-Tracking Board Game of the Future
Intrusions versus convenience? Biotech brings humanity forward in some ways, while holding us back in others.
Software Is Designing Useful Microbes That Don't Exist in Nature
A startup called 20n has already made a Tylenol clone with its genetically-engineered microbes.
The Biohacker Startup that Wants to Take Biotech Back from Corporations
Synbiota wants more people to engineer DNA in their garages.
This DNA Printing Outfit Is Basically Promising an IRL Version of 'Bioshock'
Fortunately, it's just rhetoric.
A Kinetic Sculpture Arranges 804 Orbs From Order To Chaos
Using 804 rusty spheres, design studio Hypersonic have created a kinetic installation that represents the promise of biotechnology.
A Bioengineered Glow-in-the-Dark Plant Is Your Next Night Light
Or city streetlight. Or air freshener.
A Molecular Fountain of Youth, Now Proven To Repair Brain and Muscle Tissue
The protein GDF11 reverses aging in every organ it's been tested on.