Biotechnology

Large tanks of algae have been set up to harvest carbon dioxide from city air, converting it to oxygen faster than trees can.

The dead bodies of birds are being used to disguise drones with flapping wings, allowing them to blend into the environment better.

Enzymes isolated from wax-worm saliva have been shown to break down the most-commonly used form of plastic, polyethylene.

Paris Hilton has also invested in the company looking to use CRISPR gene editing technology to attempt to bring back the wooly mammoth from extinction.

Proponents of the technology say it could be used to save extinct species—others say it's premature and brings up ethical issues.

To help the country's future food security, Biden has said the U.S. government will invest in "cultivating alternative food sources" and other biotechnologies.

Colossal Biosciences—the company attempting to revive the woolly mammoth—has announced that it is now working on the "de-extinction" of the thylacine, or Tasmanian tiger.

It comes as health authorities track several other cases of monkeypox in the U.K., some of which may have been locally transmitted.

"I was already spending 18 hours of my day at Theranos," said Leona Marlene in one of a series of videos shared on TikTok.

The government announced U.S. companies are not allowed to sell to China's Academy of Military Medical Sciences and its research institutes without a license.

This is the first time the process has been seen in a living organism, and it could one day be used in medicine or for pulling microplastics out of the ocean.

"Thermo Fisher Scientific has known that HeLa cells were stolen from Ms. Lacks and chose to use her body for profit anyway," the lawsuit says.

Advances in biotechnology, especially within the agricultural sector, can help us overcome the immense, interconnected challenges of climate change and global hunger.

Both government and industry are missing an opportunity to use new machine learning technology to deliver better health care at a lower cost.

Such materials could one day be used in medicine to encourage skin repair, according to one researcher.

With a broad market and wide range of players, this is only a glimpse into the wearables market as a whole.

The mosquitoes are being released as part of an experiment to help combat a disease-transmitting local species, according to Oxitec, the company behind the project.

The urgency of tracking coronavirus carriers calls for relaxing rules on data privacy. But unless these changes are ringfenced for this emergency, every aspect of our physical lives could soon be traded by Big Tech.

In the wrong hands, this technology could create a weapon with the potential to inflict catastrophic damage on an unprecedented scale.

Clinical trials for the drug were discontinued earlier this year, sending shockwaves through the industry.

The researchers utilized special electric signals generated by eye movements to control and change the focal length of the soft lens.

Human brain surrogates are enabling researchers to understand more about various neurological disorders.

The researchers found the virus lurking in a bucket of water.

This futuristic fabric bio-battery is now in the works.

Pitting mosquitoes against mosquitoes just might work.

Scientists harness the power of lysozyme, a protein found in tears and egg whites, to make energy.

Transhumanism is the idea that we can transcend our biological limits, by merging with machines.

A medical startup has developed an experimental "SkinGun"—the world's first device to use a patient's stem cells to directly heal the skin.

The physiology of how insects process sound holds promises for developing hearing aid tech.

Medtronic's device is small enough to be delivered through a catheter and implanted directly into the heart.