It’s no secret that the agricultural fertilizers and pesticides create major problems in our soil, water systems, animal life, and more. Thankfully there are people who aim to solve this problem, [...]
It’s been clear for some time that a personalized approach to cancer treatment is key in overcoming the disease. Since certain types of cancer, like glioblastoma (brain tumors), have been found [...]
It’s an exciting time for the future of food, as technology has finally enabled us to grow meat without slaughtering animals. Finless Foods has applied a similar technology to produce fish from [...]
What if instead of undergoing life-altering chemotherapy or surgery, a patient could take a daily pill to fight cancer? That’s the ultimate vision of DNALite, a new biotech company that wants to [...]
“Rehab on Your Phone” Photo: John Mendelson (center) and the DxRx team. Not everyone who occasionally overdrinks is seen as an alcoholic in need of help. DxRx is a service for people [...]
Liquid Dark Chocolate Is Now a Reality. Photo: Francia (center) and the GEA Enzymes team. GEA Enzymes engineers designer enzymes. Their first application is in food, with enzymes which reduce [...]
Storing Information in DNA Photo: Nathaniel Roquet (left) and Hyunjun Park of Catalog Technologies. As the amount of information that humans create grows exponentially, hard drives and older [...]
A Biomedical Lab the Size of Your Phone. Photo: The Scaled Biolabs team – Brendan Griffen (left), Justin Cooper-White, and Drew Titmarsh. Biological experiments are time-consuming, and [...]
Electronic Embryo Alteration. Photo: Arshia Firouzi (left) and Gurkern Sufi. There are numerous reasons why new therapeutics take so long to become accessible to people suffering from [...]
Photo: The NeuroQore team (Mehran on far left). Depression is a major burden in many people’s lives who we know. Some of the treatments that are prescribed, like medication, are not always [...]