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By Elie Dolgin • August 12, 2026
Jaw-dropping patient videos and miraculous testimonials ignited a frenzy in China over a technique that aims to improve drainage from the brain. Now it is entering trials worldwide.
By Elie Dolgin • April 30, 2026
AI-guided redesign of protein alphabet in bacteria could unlock new ways to build synthetic organisms.
Women in lab coat and latex gloves in a laboratory.
By Elie Dolgin • December 8, 2025
This neurologist is leading clinical efforts to treat the devastating brain disease.
A brain scan of a person with Huntington’s disease
By Elie Dolgin • September 25, 2025
Preliminary results from a small trial offer the clearest evidence yet that the brain disease’s progression can be slowed.
Man in military uniform administering a vaccine into the arm of another man.
By Elie Dolgin • September 24, 2025
The Department of Defense is continuing to bankroll projects to develop vaccines against deadly pathogens.
Cartoon of man in swimming trunks and goggles standing on an auto-injector for medicine
By Elie Dolgin • June 11, 2025
Options are emerging for the tens of millions of people who stop taking GLP-1 drugs because of side effects, cost or availability.
Model of transposase enzyme
By Elie Dolgin • May 15, 2025
‘Directed’ evolution in the laboratory creates an editing tool that outperforms classic CRISPR systems.
‘Connectoids’ use microfluid channels to recapitulate and study neural connections.
By Elie Dolgin • May 14, 2025
With organoids, assembloids and a growing bioengineering toolkit, scientists are pushing the limits of human brain models.
Picture of scientist handling mRNA, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and vaccine protesters.
By Elie Dolgin • May 9, 2025
Drug makers are scrambling to navigate an ‘existential threat’ to a once-celebrated technology.
Two children licking lollipopos
By Elie Dolgin • May 7, 2025
3D structure of the tongue’s sweet-sensing protein could guide future food designs.
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