Technology is all about solving big thorny problems. Yet one of the hardest things about solving hard problems is knowing where to focus our efforts. There are so many urgent ...
Over the ages, scientists have devised medicines to successfully treat thousands of illnesses, but eliminating rare and deadly maladies altogether is a holy grail. Treatments for inherited conditions like ...
Over the ages, scientists have devised medicines to successfully treat thousands of illnesses, but eliminating rare and deadly maladies altogether is a holy grail. Treatments for inherited conditions like ...
I SEE YOU, reader. You drink the probiotic seltzer, with its gut-improving bacteria, and the fiber-filled prebiotic. You regularly consume eclectic fermented foods and burly amounts of kale to ...
Inceptive’s Jakob Uszkoreit, a pioneer of the technology behind ChatGPT, attracts Nvidia funding to design ‘biological software’.
A biotech start-up founded by a former Google artificial intelligence expert has raised ...
Jakob Uszkoreit, one of the people who laid the groundwork for generative platforms such as ChatGPT, has secured $100 million in a Series A raise for an AI biotech ...
Chronic diseases like cancer, heart disease and diabetes, first hit the average American in their 60s. Cancer is usually diagnosed at 66, the average age for a first heart attack in ...
Scientists obsessed with aging are sketching a road map of how our bodies change as we grow old in the hopes that it will lead to treatments that could ...
Benjamin Oakes' Scribe Therapeutics is developing specialized Crispr proteins to tackle a wide range of diseases–and it’s garnered deals with Big Pharma potentially worth over $4 billion.
In 2013, Benjamin ...
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Scientists are engineering microbes to make healthier compounds. They hope they’ll help treat disease and save the planet.
Microbes have been on my mind this week. These tiny organisms are ...
The best use for generative A.I. in health care, doctors say, is to ease the heavy burden of documentation that takes them hours a day and contributes to burnout.
From ...
Hype springs eternal in medicine, but lately the horizon of new possibility seems almost blindingly bright. “I’ve been running my research lab for almost 30 years,” says Jennifer Doudna, ...
CRISPR pioneer Jennifer Doudna's company Scribe Therapeutics inked a major deal with Prevail Therapeutics potentially worth $1.5 billion to create genetic medicines for neurological and neuromuscular diseases. Scribe CEO ...
Scribe Therapeutics found another partner, this time with Prevail Therapeutics, a subsidiary of Eli Lilly, in a $75 million upfront deal for neuromuscular and neurological diseases.
Unlike Scribe’s ex vivo ...
Collaboration combines Scribe Therapeutics’ novel CRISPR by Design™ approach with Prevail Therapeutics’ deep expertise in developing genetic medicines for neurological disorders towards specified genetic targets
Scribe to receive ...
The times are changing in biopharma.
With the top drugmakers no longer committing most of their resources to the pandemic, biopharma is returning to its roots. But it’s clear the ...
Deep in the bellies of cows are tiny microbes that ferment grass and hay, breaking it down into fatty acids that serve as bovine energy—and into planet-warming methane gas. ...
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I spoke with Nikhil Buduma and Mike Ng, the cofounders of Ambience Health, which is funded by OpenAI.
The startup uses GPT-4 to generate medical documentation based on provider-patient ...
When a startup called Retro Biosciences eased out of stealth mode in mid-2022, it announced it had secured $180 million to bankroll an audacious mission: to add 10 years to ...
As a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University, Kristen Fortney used bioinformatics to study the genetics of supercentenarians — people who live to the age of 110 and beyond. Now ...
Ambience Healthcare's new product, AutoScribe, embeds into the electronic medical record and works in real-time. When clinicians use AutoScribe, they speak to their patient as they normally would while ...
We sat down with some of the most curious minds in life sciences and healthcare and invited them to share their thoughts on their careers, the future of health ...
“Why is it in popular culture, if you want to live forever, you are evil and you want to kill babies on the side?” says Martin Borch Jensen.
It’s fast ...
Tech billionaires are funding research to help us live longer and healthier lives, but experts warn of an ethical minefield ahead.
When Nir Barzilai specialised in anti-ageing science 30 years ...
Scientists are great at making mice live longer.
Rapamycin, widely prescribed to prevent organ rejection after a transplant, increases the life expectancy of middle-age mice by as much as 60 ...
The parents of a 2-year-old girl write that their daughter “could die within the next year” because a genetic mutation is causing her heart to fail.
“Time is quickly running ...
Launch fueled by syndicate of blue-chip investors co-led by Qiming Venture Partners USA and venBio Partners
Company’s proprietary end-to-end Encompass™ platform designs enhancement-targeting chimeric (ENTAC™) molecules
Founding team ...
BioAge Labs, Inc. (“BioAge”), a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing therapeutics that target the molecular causes of aging to extend healthy human lifespan, today announced positive Phase 1b clinical data ...
A guide to contemporary doomsday scenarios — from the threats you know about to the ones you never think of.
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The 2020 Nobel Laureate shares her thoughts on the first decade of CRISPR genome editing, where the technology is heading next, and what it needs to get there.
Last month, Genetic ...
Brightseed Bio 01™ is the first ingredient in Brightseed’s portfolio of bioactives discovered by its artificial intelligence (A.I.) platform Forager®
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Research labs are pursuing technology to “reprogram” aging bodies back to youth.
A little over 15 years ago, scientists at Kyoto University in Japan made a remarkable discovery. When they ...
From the philosophers whose moral imagination pushes the boundaries of what is possible to the activists making the world a better and healthier place on the ground, from the ...
Startups are creating diets tailored to patients’ medical needs, betting that specially-designed foods can work as powerful weapons against disease.
Interest among venture capitalists in the medical potential of food ...
Sanofi has teamed up with Scribe Therapeutics to write the next chapter in its natural killer (NK) cell therapy story, paying $25 million upfront and committing to $1 billion ...
Scribe Therapeutics Inc., a molecular engineering company pioneering a CRISPR by Design™ platform for genetic medicine, today announced a strategic collaboration with Sanofi for the use of Scribe’s CRISPR ...
The following is an excerpt of The Atlantic opinion editorial by CRISPR co-inventor and Nobel Prize-winner Dr. Jennifer Doudna.
CRISPR is changing the world - but it can do more.
Two ...
CRISPR is a family of DNA sequences found in the genomes of prokaryotic organisms such as bacteria and archaea. These sequences are derived from DNA fragments of viruses called ...
