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Will the frenzied rush to understand and treat SARS-CoV-2 bring longer lasting benefit to the world of scientific research and medicine?

What would a sex toy that anticipates your every whim be like?

Nanobots that find you a soul mate, a Frankenstein remix, and other stories that turn the neobiological revolution inside out.

Nature breaks everything down—eventually. It’s time to accelerate the process.

Gene editing scrambles a family's connections in this original sci-fi story for NEO.LIFE.

Seeing the universe as it is gives us strength rooted in humility. by Eliot Peper

Sara Riggare can’t finish her PhD because an ethics committee says she needed their approval first.

Lucy McRae provokes us to vividly imagine alternate futures.

A professor in China builds a brain-machine interface that keeps humans fully in charge.

The first company to offer whole genome sequencing for free can build the most valuable advertising engine in the world. by Andrew Hessel

Student competitors turn jellyfish, microorganisms, and even hair cells into useful things.

Women suffering from hot flashes try to find relief in a device that wasn’t designed specifically for them.

A startup tries to scale up health care that’s cheaper, safer, and much more comfortable.

“The Rise of Yeast” explains how one fungus altered history.

Jamie Metzl makes you smarter about the science of longevity research.