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

For the first time, researchers are testing an approach that involves replacing a mutated gene in the inner ears of children with severe hearing loss.

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

Super Chill

How to Make Bionic Limbs (Literally) Very Cool

Celia Ford

Biotech

A New Blood Test May Predict Your Alzheimer’s Risk. Should You Take It?

Emily Mullin

Fine Tuned

This Prosthetic Limb Actually Attaches to the Wearer’s Nerves

Maggie Chen

Public Health

A Patient May Be Free of HIV, Thanks to This Drug

Emily Mullin

WIRED Podcasts

The Viruses That Could Cure Cancer (or Wipe Out Humanity)

Gideon Lichfield and Lauren Goode