Techbio news

Your phone is judging your hydration levels (and embryos are getting report cards)

From mind-reading tattoos to spine-fixing stem cells, biotech just went full sci-fi

Share Your DNA, Mammoth Mice and Skin Trouble?

Jere Kettunen

Brain injections for Parkinsons 🧠 and FDA approved brain-computer implants

Brains, brains, brains!

🍋 Scientists Built a Robot You Can Eat (Baking Soda Included)

Plus: AI bandages that prescribe their own drugs, glowing bacteria pills for gut disease, an AI chemist that outpaces PhD students, and a smart menstrual cup that actually works this time

🧬 AI Is Coming for Your Pathogens (And Also Your Vocal Cords)

Plus: rhino embryos, malaria breakthroughs, and the weight-loss drug that isn't a GLP-1

🧠 Sam Altman Wants Inside Your Head (No Surgery Required)

Plus: Artificial wombs keep lambs alive for a month, Japanese scientist reads minds like Professor X, James Watson's complicated legacy ends, and gene therapy actually slows Huntington's disease

🫘 Your Gut Bacteria Just Solved the Kidney Waitlist Crisis

Plus: Retinal implants restore reading vision, AI embryo selection accuracy scandal, lab-grown blood factories with beating hearts, and Silicon Valley's spy problem

🚽 Your toilet might be smarter than you (and other signs science might have lost the plot)

Plus: Lab-grown chocolate that's actually good, yoga pants made from sugar, Brazil's 100-million-mosquito-per-week factory, and yes, humans can sort of breathe through their butts now.

🧠 The week Alzheimer's got three plot twists and plants learned to pop

Plus: A Nobel Prize for teaching your immune system when NOT to attack you, lab-grown brains spark an existential crisis, and someone's charging $42 for plant pearls