SpudCell Completes a Full Synthetic Cell Cycle With a 90,000-base-pair Genome
SpudCell is a bottom-up synthetic cell that can feed, grow, replicate a roughly 90,000-base-pair genome, divide, and pass through multiple…
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John Jumper Is Leaving Google DeepMind for Anthropic
John Jumper, the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate who led AlphaFold at Google DeepMind, said on June 19, 2026,…
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Some Microbiome Products Help Selected Ageing Outcomes, but Broad Anti-ageing Benefits Remain Unproven
Prebiotics and probiotics can help some specific outcomes in older adults, but there is no good evidence yet that prebiotics,…
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MRNA adjuvant boosts T-cell responses in mice
MIT- and Harvard-linked researchers reported on 13 May that an mRNA-encoded adjuvant built from NIK and IRF8 boosted T-cell responses…
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Stroke Stem Cells Repaired Mouse Brains: But Not Quite Reversed Damage
Researchers at the University of Zurich and collaborators reported on September 16, 2025 that stroke stem cells improved long-term recovery…
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302 Designs, 16 Hits: AI-Designed Viruses in the Lab
AI-designed viruses are now a lab result, but not in the way the viral posts made it sound. Researchers affiliated…
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mRNA Cancer Vaccines: Why 2026 Readouts Matter for Oncology
A 49% lower risk of melanoma coming back after surgery sounds like hype copy, but it’s a real number from…
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Neurons Play Doom: The Ethical Problem Labs Can’t Ignore
Two hundred thousand lab‑grown human neurons sit on a microelectrode array in Melbourne, wired into a PyTorch RL agent. A…
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Fetal Cells Can Persist in Mothers for Decades After Pregnancy
Fetal microchimerism is the long-term presence of a small number of fetal cells or fetal DNA in a mother after…
