Inside the Lab that Grows Human Skin to Test Your Cosmetics
MatTek grows thousands of dime-sized pieces of skin in plastic dishes that add up, altogether, to about two whole adult…
Aggregating the Future
MatTek grows thousands of dime-sized pieces of skin in plastic dishes that add up, altogether, to about two whole adult…
Precision medicine—and two terabytes of genomic data—saved one man’s life. The post How Doctors Could One Day Use Your DNA…
This fall, farmers are harvesting 50,000 acres of the cotton planted with a microbial spray designed to improve yields in…
No one has ever cut a giant hole in a bagel-shaped glass roof and dropped water nine stories in the…
By adding digestive juices, scientists have finally figured out how to grow norovirus in a petri dish—opening up a path…
Artists, activists, and journalists now see VR’s potential to be an empathy engine. The post Can VR Really Make You…
Counsyl is one of the first fully-automated genetic testing labs in the country. The post Inside the Robot-Run Genetics Lab…
Illumina, the world’s largest DNA sequencer company, is incubating some new companies in an effort to broaden the base of…
HM’s scientific potential remains unfulfilled—thanks to delays from a custody fight and the limitations of current neuroscience itself. The post…
Headgear doesn’t protect boxers from concussions. The post Why Olympic Boxers Aren’t Wearing Headgear Anymore appeared first on WIRED. Source:…