Weischol

Somewhere in the crushing darkness of the deep ocean, at pressures that would instantly destroy unprotected human tissue, at temperatures hovering just above freezing, living creatures are quietly synthesizing molecules of extraordinary complexity and power. A sponge attached to a hydrothermal vent is producing chemical […]

You’re holding a plastic water bottle. It feels exactly like every other plastic bottle you’ve ever touched — rigid, lightweight, transparent. But this one was made by bacteria. Living microorganisms consumed sugar, processed it through their metabolic pathways, and excreted the polymer chains that eventually […]

The pharmaceutical industry is standing on the edge of a financial precipice unlike anything it has seen in decades. Over the next several years, a wave of blockbuster biologics and small-molecule drugs — many generating hundreds of millions, even billions, in annual revenue — will […]

Forget the arguments about cookies, location tracking, and social media data harvesting. Those conversations, as important as they are, involve data that you consciously generate — things you type, places you visit, content you choose to engage with. The new frontier is something altogether more […]

Let’s talk about something the gene therapy industry doesn’t advertise in its press releases. Behind the breathtaking headlines about CRISPR curing sickle cell disease, reversing blindness, and potentially defeating cancer lies a problem that has never been fully solved — and that too many people […]

There’s a revolution brewing in biology — and it doesn’t look like what you’d expect. Forget the massive stainless-steel bioreactors, the cleanroom facilities that cost hundreds of millions of dollars to build, the pharmaceutical factories that sprawl across acres of industrial land. The next frontier […]

There’s a quiet crisis happening in the world of medicine — and most people have no idea it’s unfolding right now. While headlines are dominated by geopolitics, celebrity drama, and the latest tech gadgets, something far more consequential is happening behind the doors of university […]