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The FDA Approves Weight Loss Drug Zepbound, a Wegovy and Ozempic Rival

Eli Lilly is about to release Zepbound, a new entrant in the superheated competition for blockbuster weight loss drugs.

Emily Mullin

Baby Monitor

New Jersey Keeps Newborn DNA for 23 Years. Parents Are Suing

Emily Mullin

Biotech

The Second Person to Get a Pig Heart Transplant Just Died

Emily Mullin

Red Alert

These Plants Can Sound the Alarm in a Toxic World

Celia Ford

Mental Health

A Personalized Brain Implant Curbed a Woman’s OCD

Emily Mullin

Biotech

New Trials Aim to Restore Hearing in Deaf Children—With Gene Therapy

Emily Mullin

Immunity Boost

These Gene-Edited Chickens Were Made to Resist Bird Flu

Emily Mullin

Biotech

A Monkey Got a New Kidney From a Pig—and Lived for 2 Years

Emily Mullin

Bioethics

What Do We Owe the Octopus?

Emily Mullin

Full Disclosure

How Neuralink Keeps Dead Monkey Photos Secret

Dell Cameron and Dhruv Mehrotra

Biotech

A Lab Just 3D-Printed a Neural Network of Living Brain Cells

Celia Ford

mRNA

Katalin Karikó’s Nobel Prize Marks the Beginning of an mRNA Vaccine Revolution

Stephen Buranyi

Genetic Genealogy

DNA Drives Help Identify Missing People. It’s a Privacy Nightmare

Emily Mullin

Change of Heart

Another Person Just Got a Pig Heart. Scientists Have a Plan to Make It Last

Emily Mullin

Test Case

The Gruesome Story of How Neuralink’s Monkeys Actually Died

Dhruv Mehrotra and Dell Cameron

Net Zero

The UK Is Burning Climate Pledges to Fuel a Culture War

Matt Reynolds

Biotech

Everything We Know About Neuralink’s Brain Implant Trial

Emily Mullin

Let There Be Light

Here Come the Glow-in-the-Dark Houseplants

Emily Mullin

The Big Interview

Crispr Pioneer Jennifer Doudna Has the Guts to Take On the Microbiome

Jennifer Kahn

Public Health

Covid Boosters Can’t Outpace New Mutations. Here’s Why They Still Work

Emily Mullin

Building Blocks

Scientists Just Tried Growing Human Kidneys in Pigs

Emily Mullin

Brain Power

A Brain Implant Helped Stroke Survivors Regain Movement

Emily Mullin

Biotech

Injecting a Gene Into Monkeys’ Brains Curbed Their Alcohol Use

Emily Mullin