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Can Synthetic Biology Make Mosquito-Borne Diseases a Thing of the Past?
In a recent announcement, DARPA has awarded up to $15 million to synthetic biology companies and scientists to create a novel, long-lasting mosquito repellent using engineered microbes
What If You Could Change Your Immune System By Wearing Earbuds? Meet The Startup That Could Make It Possible
Non-invasive, wearable tech could usher in a new generation of personalized therapeutics.
The Stunning Pace Of Progress: One Year In, Covid-19 Treatments And Vaccines Are Close At Hand (INFOGRAPHIC)
The global race to deliver proven antibody treatments and vaccines for COVID-19 is well underway. A slew of candidates — including many made possible by advances in synthetic biology — are in late-stage clinical trials.
Can We Recreate Every Human Cell Type In The Body? This UK Startup Thinks So.
Bit Bio, a UK synthetic biology startup backed by Silicon Valley investors, has partnered with the London Institute for Mathematical Sciences, marking a milestone in the fusion of biology and mathematics for coding human cells.
One Company Was The First To Produce A Key Component Of The Covid-19 PCR Test. And It Has Now Provided 52 Million Tests
Since that first meeting with the CDC, IDT massively scaled up production, creating a team that could formulate those primers and probes together so that they were reaction ready and ship them around the US, to provide 52 million CDC-approved tests as …
The Data Organ: Paradromics CEO Matt Angle On The Future Of The Brain-Computer Interface
Could computer chips that connect directly to the brain give sight to the blind — or even delete mental illness? Paradromics CEO Matt Angle thinks his company could help as many as 20 million people in the U.S. alone.
Is Coronavirus In The NYC Subway? How Swabbing Doors And Trains Is Shaping The Fight Against COVID-19
New Yorkers know the subway can be nasty, but COVID-19 has made riding the rails feel even dicier than usual. Here’s how we test for pathogens in public places, and what it says about the course we should follow.
Timeline Shows 3 Paths To COVID-19 Treatment And Prevention (INFOGRAPHIC)
A new visualization of progress in the fight against COVID-19 should give us hope. Although we are all now living in uncertain times, we are also witnessing one of the greatest moments in the history of science.
Running Your Pharma Company Out Of A Starbucks: Drug Discovery Moves To The Cloud
Fifteen years and $2.5 billion dollars is too much to get a drug to market that no one can afford. Strateos’ solution: put big pharma in the cloud, and make drug discovery possible from a coffee shop.
Meet The Companies Waging War On Sugar And Diabetes – With Synthetic Biology
By 2030, almost 400,000 Americans a year will die of diabetes – many of them unnecessarily. Here’s a look at the next generation of continuous glucose monitoring systems and low-calorie sugar alternatives set to change the outlook for health in the U.S…
