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!

🩺 The Robot Will See You Now, and It Out-Diagnosed Your Doctor

Plus: China's brain chip beats Neuralink to market, a gene therapy for deafness that's free, billions in science money gathering dust, and earthworms that just poop out plastic.

🫀 Why Heart Cancer Barely Exists, Plus AI That Sees Tumors From The Future

Plus: AI catching pancreatic cancer years early, microplastics doing crimes in your brain, HIV's most dramatic comeback drug, and Utah's "trust us bro" lab-grown sperm.

🎙️ A silicone choker that lets you speak without speaking (it works 85.8% of the time)

Plus: worms ride to the ISS, a gut bug teaches mouse immune systems to kill melanoma, a nasal spray rewinds the aging mouse brain, and a tobacco exec moves into a CDC corner office.

💡 Scientists Built a Light Switch for Love (No, Really)

Plus: monkeys navigating a virtual forest with their minds, and a contact lens that medicates itself

🐭 1,200 Cloned Mice Later, We Found the Limit of the genetic Ctrl+C

Plus: Tobacco plants producing five psychedelics at once, the most expensive cocoa study ever still won't justify your Snickers habit, and China's glowing plants that definitely won't replace your streetlights

🐍 Snake Blood, Cat Genes, and Scientists Who Can't Take a Joke

Plus: Feline oncogenomics mirrors human cancer, a grad student volunteers as mosquito bait, and a startup bets the farm(house) on chicken eggs as drug factories