The DNA inside our cells isn’t just a series of instructions, but something far more dynamic. Like scientists, AI models don’t yet have the data to properly decode it.
Henri Kagan and Kensō Soai designed chemical reactions producing only one of the two mirror-image forms of a molecule—an important finding for the synthesis of pharmaceuticals and other biological substances.
Bridge Neurotech is planning to build a wearable brain-computer interface that uses ultrasound.
In her new book on biological warfare, Annie Jacobsen didn’t even discuss AI because scientists can already warp Mother Nature to create extinction-level events.
The practice of editing the genes of embryos remains highly controversial and risky, but Origin Genomics founder Cathy Tie argues its a “moral imperative” to address hereditary diseases.
“The experiments are still in the queue. The PR is already live,” says one expert.
David Baker spoke with WIRED en Español about where biological design is headed next and the great potential and risks of taking biology outside the bounds of the natural world.
Of all the threats presented by uncontrollable artificial intelligence, scientists say death by plague ranks low.
The treatment can reprogram immune cells that have been corrupted by the cancer, strengthening the body’s ability to attack.
Mini human brains are being grown in labs all over the world. Soon, they could outthink neural networks.