2054, Part IV: A Nation Divided
[ad_1] Wisecarver stepped across the threshold. “Good morning, Mr. President.” He gave a little nod. Beneath his arm he carried a single binder. “Good morning, Trent.” Smith gestured for Wisecarver…
2054, Part III: The Singularity
[ad_1] Lily didn’t want to approach B.T. She thought that might seem too aggressive; instead, she wanted him to notice her. At the roulette table, he had placed his chips…
2054, Part II: Next Big Thing
[ad_1] A bloody Sunday followed. In Tucson, a Border Patrol officer fired a rubber bullet that struck a Truther protester in the eye, killing her. When the news broke, the…
2054, Part I: Death of a President
[ad_1] “But do you understand what you did wrong?” She struggled to look him directly in the eye. Her gaze instead fell over his shoulder, where the news was streaming…
A Startup Has Unlocked a Way to Make Cheap Insulin
[ad_1] Now some key patents have expired, and the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has paved the way for biosimilar versions of insulin—so-called because they’re almost identical to another…
Elon Musk Says a Human Patient Has Received Neuralink’s Brain Implant
[ad_1] Elon Musk said on the social media platform X on Monday that the first human patient has received a brain implant developed by his company Neuralink. After years of…
Watch a Deaf Child Regain Hearing After a Breakthrough Gene Therapy
[ad_1] To get the new genetic material into cells, they engineered harmless viruses to carry it. Doctors carefully injected a tiny amount of liquid containing the viruses into a part…
Scientists Will Test a Cancer-Hunting mRNA Treatment
[ad_1] To keep IL-12 inside tumors, scientists at Strand designed a set of instructions called a genetic circuit that tells the mRNA to make the inflammatory protein only when it…
A Gene-Edited Pig Liver Was Attached to a Person—and Worked for 3 Days
[ad_1] That has led researchers to genetically alter pigs in an attempt to make their organs a better match. The biotech company that bred the pig for the Penn study,…
A Gel Injected Into the Scrotum Could Be the Next Male Contraceptive
[ad_1] The purpose of the current trial is to assess the gel’s safety and longevity, not how well it prevents pregnancy. Participants were asked to use a back-up form of…