CRISPR

lipid nanoparticles

AI Designed a Protein Shell Nature Never Tried

Sep 8, 2026

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6 min read

AI Designed a Protein Shell Nature Never Tried

More than 100 synthetic RNA carriers were built around AI-designed protein architectures. One needed dramatically less RNA than the team's lipid-particle benchmark, reached the lung after an intravenous dose in mice, and carried a gene editor into pig muscle. The science is early. The platform signal is not.

Biotech

The Immune Cells Gene Editing Couldn't Reach

Aug 25, 2026

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5 min read

The Immune Cells Gene Editing Couldn't Reach

Macrophages decide what your body attacks, and their verdicts sit underneath arthritis, artery disease and the wall that keeps immunity out of a tumour. Gene editing largely skipped them, because the standard way in kills them. A new delivery vehicle changed that, and the first large genetic screen ever run in these cells has already turned something up.

Nucleus Genomics

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Choose the "Best" Embryo, Then Rewrite It: The New Baby Business Is Open

Jul 8, 2026

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4 min read

Choose the "Best" Embryo, Then Rewrite It: The New Baby Business Is Open

One technology ranks IVF embryos by predicted IQ and disease; another wants to edit them. What embryo screening and gene editing can really do, and can't.

gene-editing medicine

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The Signal — The $20,000 home robot has arrived, with a human quietly on call

Jun 25, 2026

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12 min read

The Signal — The $20,000 home robot has arrived, with a human quietly on call

A walking humanoid you can buy for your living room is shipping this year — but the laundry-folding demo hides a remote helper. Plus six more signals from the frontier.