Biotech and life-science news that tickles your brain
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From mind-reading tattoos to spine-fixing stem cells, biotech just went full sci-fi
Brains, brains, brains!
Plus: Chronic fatigue finally gets a blood test (with caveats), your eyes reveal oxygen starvation before you go blind, the science funding gap that nobody wants to fix, and free organism illustrations for everyone who can't afford stock art.
Plus: Mars maybe-life gets tangled in budget hell, lizards choose cheese pizza, a pigeon breakthrough nobody saw coming, and why 12,000 organs end up in the trash every year.
Plus: Climate change is ruining your cheese, celebrities turned MRIs into status symbols, and why dead biotech companies should tell us their secrets
We also heard that Mars microbes want to be astronauts, healthcare discovers Windows 95, and cement becomes sentient
Plus: Bacteria learns to speak a new language, your nervous system becomes an anti-inflammatory drug, and eyeballs get WiFi
Mind-reading BCIs get chatty, scientists find life's bare minimum, pig lungs audition for humans, and young brain cells learn you can't fight city hall