biotech

How Doudna and Charpentier repurposed a bacterial immune system into a precise gene-editing tool, winning the 2020 Nobel and sparking a decade of scientific and ethical debate.

AlphaFold won the 2024 Nobel. The first AI-designed drugs are in clinical trials. How AI is reshaping every stage of pharmaceutical R&D.

How neural networks accelerate drug discovery from years to months.

Imagine waking up to a headline: AI has cracked cancer, Alzheimer's, and every infectious disease. What would that world actually look like?

Forget the headlines about designer babies for a minute. Here's what actually happens at the molecular level when Cas9 finds, unzips, and cuts a strand of DNA.

Some scientists genuinely believe today's children could live for centuries. Here's what aging actually is, what we'd need to defeat it, and what a 1,000-year lifespan would mean for humanity.