Biotech Stories for 2023

Cancer Researchers Show CRISPR-Edited CAR T Cells Could Improve Immunotherapy 11
Researchers Identify a 'Switch' That Might Someday Kill Tumor Cells 29
FSF Warns About the Perils of Medical Devices with Un-Free Software 58
Drugmakers Are Set To Pay 23andMe Millions To Access Consumer DNA 106
Can Humans Have Babies In Space? SpaceBorn United Wants To Find Out 105
World-First Trial of Gene Therapy To Cure Form of Deafness Begins 14
USFWS Is Creating a Frozen Library of Biodiversity To Help Endangered Species 12
China's Quest for Human Genetic Data Spurs Fears of a DNA Arms Race 32
A Biotech Company Says It Put Dopamine-Making Cells Into People's Brains 30
The 'Weird' Male Y Chromosome Has Finally Been Fully Sequenced 145
Scientists Genetically Engineer Bacteria To Detect Cancer Cells 20
Structure of Elusive Boron Monoxide Finally Determined After 83 Years 26
Elizabeth Holmes' Prison Sentence Was Quietly Reduced By Two Years 156
Real-World 'Jurassic Park' Startup Argues Not De-Extincting Animals Would Be Even Scarier 54
'World War III Will Be Fought With Viruses' 194
3M Reaches $10.3 Billion Settlement Over Contamination of Water Systems 11
US Approves Chicken Made From Cultivated Cells, the Nation's First 'Lab-Grown' Meat 110
Health Firm 'Grail' Wrongly Told Hundreds of People They Might Have Cancer 27
Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes Begins 11-Year Prison Sentence 77
Brain Waves Can Tell Us How Much Pain Someone Is In 70
Pancreatic Cancer Vaccine Shows Promise In Small Trial 91
The First IVF Babies Conceived By a Robot Have Been Born 55
Synthetic Embryos Have Been Implanted Into Monkey Wombs 28
Meatball From Long-Extinct Mammoth Created By Food Firm 72
FDA Clears Lab-Grown Chicken As Safe To Eat 136
Three-Parent Baby Technique Could Create Babies At Risk of Severe Disease 48
US Regulators Rejected Neuralink's Bid To Test Brain Chips In Humans, Citing Safety Risks 68
Virologist Disputes WSJ Report on a Minority Opinion Suggesting Covid 'Lab Leak' Origin 282
Researchers Have Successfully Grown Electrodes In Living Tissue 16
Discovery of 'Bond Villain' DNA Could Be a 'Gamechanger' for Cancer Treament 24
For the First Time, Genetically Modified Trees Have Been Planted in a US Forest 79
Americans Are Ready To Test Embryos For Future College Chances, Survey Shows 188
'De-Extinction' Company Will Try To Bring Back the Dodo 123
Impossible Foods Plans To Lay Off About 20% of Workers 174
A Drug Company Made $114 Billion Gaming America's Patent System 92
Anti-Microbial Proteins Are Being Developed With AI By... Salesforce? 13
An ALS Patient Set a Record For Communicating Via a Brain Implant: 62 Words Per Minute 17
Lab-Grown Alternatives Aim To Cut Palm Oil Dependence 59
Old Mice Grow Young Again in Study. Can People Do the Same? 80
Biotech Startup Says Mice Live Longer After Genetic Reprogramming 30
How a 'Holy Grail' Wheat Gene Discovery Could Keep Feeding a Warming Planet 90

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