NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Is Built to Survive a Brush With the Sun

Here’s how the Parker probe was engineered to withstand temperatures spiking to over a million degrees…

23andMe’s Pharma Deals Have Been the Plan All Along

A new partnership with GlaxoSmithKline drew intense scrutiny from customers, reflecting eroding public trust in companies'…

All of Us and the Dream of a Research Diversity Crusader

The billion-dollar, 10-year All of Us initiative promises to sequence and study the health of 1…

Crispr Fans Fight for Egalitarian Access to Gene Editing

The applications of gene editing tech will be shaped by the values of the societies that…

A Blood-Based Cancer Test Gets Its First Results

The biotech unicorn Grail just gave its first look at how its sequencing-based cancer test prototypes…