Shelly Fan

The technology, still far from clinical use, could one day prevent devastating diseases. But critics warn that even these early results may also fuel interest in commercial embryo editing, despite unresolved ethical and safety concerns.

A new study suggests AI needs to focus more like we do.

A single observational case suggests psilocybin may ‘awaken’ cognitive reserve in dementia. But scientists caution controlled trials are needed to know if the drug was the cause.

The robot removed a pig's gallbladder with standard surgical tools in an ordinary operating room.

Research suggests offloading mental work to AI is like debt: an immediate payoff with long-term consequences. But collaborating with the technology may boost our work without eroding skills.

Researchers could use lab-grown sperm to develop infertility treatments or, more controversially, make babies.

To make CRISPR better at its job, researchers are turning to algorithms like DeepMind's AlphaFold.

Researchers will hunt for antibodies in the blood of people who lived past 100, drank heavily, or smoked—but avoided cancer.

The discovery could lead to treatments and demonstrates the power of efforts to unearth rare, beneficial genes in large populations.

An extra day may seem trivial. But “this scale of improvement corresponds roughly to a decade’s worth of meteorological progress,” the team wrote.