Promising mouse studies and billions of dollars in funding are stoking excitement. But we’ve been here before. Earlier this week, Life Biosciences, a biotech company focused on reversing age-related ...

Plus: SpaceX has officially delivered the largest IPO in history. This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of ...

The original hero of space opera is up for debate. Chronologically, most would claim that John Carter, of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ novels, starting with A Princess of Mars (1912), is the beginning of the ...

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The cost of sequencing DNA has dropped dramatically, and with technologies like CRISPR, gene editing is becoming more precise and powerful than ever. From curing genetic diseases to designing the next ...

The aim of immunotherapy strategies is to leverage cells in the patient's own immune system to destroy tumor cells. Using a preclinical model, scientists from the Institut Pasteur and Inserm ...

Scientists from Trinity College Dublin have discovered that electrically stimulating macrophages—one of the immune systems key players—can reprogram them in such a way as to reduce inflammation and ...

If you own a smart TV, then you probably have streamer buttons on your remote control. This handy feature allows you to easily jump from an app like Netflix to Disney+, without having to escape back ...

Leafcutter ants live in highly organized colonies where every ant has a job, and now researchers can flip those jobs like a switch. By manipulating just two neuropeptides, scientists can turn ...

For those hoping to cure death, and they are legion, a 2016 experiment at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in San Diego has become liminal — the moment that changed everything. The experiment ...

Priye's fondness of gaming started early when he first beat Double Dragon II and couldn't stop himself from doing it all over again every chance he got. Since then, playing a bunch of Contra, GTA, ...