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But can they manufacture it at scale?

From sleepless startups to huge sequencing centers, genomics is booming in China. Will other countries get left behind?

Gregory Stock is ready for cloning, gene editing, and conscious AI. But first he’s trying to get you better health care.

That’s no joke! If it were, there’d have been a third person in the bar. There’s always a third person to bear the brunt of…

Teleported molecules, custom genomes, and other innovations that will deliver on the technology’s biggest promises.

A thriller about cloning, gene editing, and bioengineering is the perfect show for our times.

Leroy Hood, pioneer of systems biology, is trying to upend medicine with a service that tests everything about you.

A handy chart for sorting out many of the options in DNA analysis.

Lou Auguste harnesses robotics and software to amp up remote medicine.

Doctors could soon prescribe screen time for children with ADHD.

Companies are using your DNA to customize a diet plan. If it works, it might not be for the reasons advertised.

The secrets in your genes may be worth even more to researchers than they are to you.

Lab-grown meat is still weird. This tiny startup is spawning something better.

MIT dropout Laura Deming is on the hunt for causes of disease and mechanisms for quashing it.

Sophia Roosth puts big questions to the people who are reviving extinct species and building organisms from scratch.