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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) recently issued $8 million in follow-up funding to a team of neuroengineers developing brain-to-brain and brain-to-machine technology.

Researchers find a way to distort laser light to survive a trip through disordered obstacles.

Scientists regenerate damaged spinal cord nerve fibers with designer protein, helping paralyzed mice walk again.

Porcine gene edits may allow such transplants without rejection.

What lies in store for humanity? Theoretical physicist Michio Kaku explains how different life will be for your descendants—and maybe your future self, if the timing works out.

Singapore has approved the sale of a lab-grown meat product in an effort to secure its food supplies against disease and climate change.

The Google-owned company developed a system that can reliably predict the 3D shapes of proteins.

An overfished planet needs a better solution. Fortunately, it's coming.

Techshot's 3D BioFabrication Facility successfully printed human heart tissue aboard the International Space Station.

A recent study tested how well the fungi species Cladosporium sphaerospermum blocked cosmic radiation aboard the International Space Station.

Scientists figured out how a certain treatment for skin cancer gives some patients a visual "superpower."

Switching over to a vegan-based diet can drastically cut CO2 emissions. But will Americans actually change their diet?

As the American loneliness epidemic reaches alarming new heights, one artist theorizes on what connection might look like in the future.

The FDA calls out creators of genetically tweaked hornless bulls.

Scientists find promising results in trial to reverse biological aging.

A new report sees a major disruption in where we get our food.

Here's why you might eat greenhouse gases in the future.

Experts say two emerging meat alternatives will challenge the conventional meat industry.

The neuralnanorobotics are coming.

Beefless meat enters the mainstream.

What gives us color now may give rise to our cyborg future.

The controversial herbicide is everywhere, apparently.

Diabetics have to endure constant injections on a daily basis, but this new device could make staying alive easier.

Chemo is our best response to cancer so far. A novel new therapy could render it obsolete.

Microbes screened with a new microfluidic process might be used in power generation or environmental cleanup.

They're fun, so why not? Well, maybe because they're often inscrutable.

As costs go down and the benefits become more clear, can we afford not to eat lab-grown meat?

Harvard bioethics specialist Glenn Cohen considers the complex question of whether humans should mix their genetic material with other animals to create chimeras.

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