17-08-2025 22:50 via nytimes.com

China’s Biotech Is Cheaper and Faster Than America’s

China’s biotechnology sector has established a bright future by focusing not on breakthrough cures and treatments but on speed and efficiency.

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Improved provenance tracking by documenting plasmids within their own sequence

America Is Giving Up a Lifesaving Medical Breakthrough: mRNA

Splice, exchange, extend: precision editing of native proteins in live cells

William J. Rutter, Biotech Pioneer of Gene-Based Medicine, Dies at 97

Zelig Eshhar, Who Engineered Immune Cells to Fight Cancer, Dies at 84

Microbial cellulose production using ocean water: sustainable and cost-effective?

Towards a cultivated ribeye

Peter Thiel and the Antichrist

Vector-free intra-airway in vivo epigenetic editing

Production of phosphorylated and functional αs1-casein in Escherichia coli

Pollutant degradation in saline wastewater using synthetic biology

Challenges of alignment in synthetic cell research

Shifting the detection range of cell biosensors toward high concentrations using ligand-related exporters for applications

Rapid selection of transgenic mammalian cells via diphtheria toxin resistance