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!

🧠 An Algorithm Walked Into a Memory Clinic and Predicted Your Future

Plus: Blood test "clocks" forecast Alzheimer's onset years out, tau's unexpected side hustle in heart and kidney disease, Celularity's $35M longevity pivot, and a genome app for the well-funded

💊 The Most Personalized Medicine Company in the World Just Ran Out of Time

Plus: Neurons playing Doom (poorly), the biggest open-source biology AI hits Nature, frozen mouse brains that kinda work again, and $105M to save the banana

💉 One Flu Shot to Rule Them All Finally Enters Human Trials

Plus: Spirulina goes mainstream, mini-brains learn to balance poles, a British chip tests your liver (virtually), and Swiss scientists print an ear.

🍼 Born in the USA? Your baby probably hasn't eaten real food

Plus: Museums bottling what ancient Egyptians actually smelled like, RNA that almost figured out how to copy itself, Illumina mapping a billion cells with Big Pharma's blessing, and a Finnish startup teaching proteins where to go

🦠 The FDA said no, then yes, then maybe - all in 8 days

Plus: MIT bottles your photo album, ALS gets its first TDP-43 shot, mice diagnose what doctors can't, and smart underwear counts your farts (for science)

🧬 The week surgeons removed a man's lungs and said "trust the process"

Plus: A triple drug cocktail that made pancreatic tumors vanish in mice, Nike's $145 neuroscience shoes that neuroscientists hate, bacteria that give plants heart attacks, and MS turns out to be two diseases in a trenchcoat