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!

🧬 DeepMind Predicted Every Possible Typo in Your DNA. All 9 Billion of Them.

Plus: a fruit fly brain with a crypto account, mice running on mostly human cortex, a first treatment for "childhood Alzheimer's," and placenta up the nose.

🪳 We Gave Cockroaches AI, and Now They Climb Better Than Our Robots

Plus: a second batch of cockroaches showing up with syringes, Lady Gaga quietly sitting on a biotech board, and a ring that reads your blood sugar out of finger sweat.

🧬 AI-Designed Viruses Just Killed Bacteria That Shrug Off the Natural Ones

Plus: a patch that buzzes when the air turns, brain tissue keeping a five-year calendar, a seahorse impostor misfiled since 2006, and organoids that learned front from back.

🧟 Silicon Valley's Immortality Plan Is A Spare You, Minus The Brain

Plus: sperm precursors grown on a mouse's kidney, an FDA panel overruling its own scientists, and a quarter-million public comments that mostly weren't from the public.

🧠 At 50, Your Brain Swaps Out Its Immune Staff And Doesn't Check References

Plus: two humanoid robots remove a gallbladder, overfed worms sprout chains of clones, and scientists install a power outlet under your skin

🧫 Someone Built a Cell From a Shopping List and It Started Competing With Itself

Plus: cockroaches issued scuba gear, the first human eggs grown from a blood draw, a chip that out-sniffs your nose, and surgery on a baby who hadn't been born yet.