Biotechnology

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 […]

Think of this: instead of spraying toxic chemicals across vast fields to kill pests, farmers release microscopic warriors that seek out harmful insects and plant diseases with surgical precision. These aren’t science fiction creations—they’re engineered microbes, and they’re already transforming how we think about protecting […]

Picture a fuel that grows in fields, gets harvested like wheat, fermented like beer, and burned in engines like gasoline — all while supposedly putting no net carbon into the atmosphere. Sounds almost too good to be true, doesn’t it? That’s the seductive promise of […]

When most people think about protein biomanufacturing, insulin is the story they know. And it’s a good story — a genuinely transformative one. The ability to produce human insulin in engineered bacteria, rather than extracting it from pig and cow pancreases, revolutionized diabetes care for […]

Imagine two children born on the same day — one in Oslo, Norway, and one in Bamako, Mali. Both carry the same rare genetic disorder. In Oslo, the child receives a gene therapy that corrects the underlying mutation before their second birthday. They grow up […]