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!

💉 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.

🍼 Born in the USA? Your baby probably hasn't eaten real food

Plus: Museums bottling what ancient Egyptians actually smelled like, RNA that almost figured out how to copy itself, Illumina mapping a billion cells with Big Pharma's blessing, and a Finnish startup teaching proteins where to go

🦠 The FDA said no, then yes, then maybe - all in 8 days

Plus: MIT bottles your photo album, ALS gets its first TDP-43 shot, mice diagnose what doctors can't, and smart underwear counts your farts (for science)

🧬 The week surgeons removed a man's lungs and said "trust the process"

Plus: A triple drug cocktail that made pancreatic tumors vanish in mice, Nike's $145 neuroscience shoes that neuroscientists hate, bacteria that give plants heart attacks, and MS turns out to be two diseases in a trenchcoat

🧬 Scientists just got FDA approval to literally rewind your cells

Plus: Your silicone cupcake molds are seasoning your brownies with chemicals, pandas had it right all along, quantum biology just became real, and your sleep type is way more complicated than "night owl."

👂 Science gives ears to the deaf? (and confirmed your horse knows you're faking it)

Plus: Sugarcane spit shields your teeth, robots learn to spot when surgery hurts, and light inches closer to becoming brain medicine