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!

🐭 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

🧠 One Blood Test Could Flag Dementia 25 Years Before It Hits

Plus: In-body CAR-T cells skip the lab, ChatGPT helps design a dog cancer vaccine, NIH funding announcements collapse 98%, and $14 Ozempic copies hit India

🧠 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.