In this week’s edition of The Prototype, we look at a startup building giant robot boats, manipulating DNA with electricity and more.

Human fertility hinges on a delicate molecular ballet that begins even before birth. UC Davis researchers have uncovered how special protein networks safeguard chromosomes as eggs and sperm form, ...

For decades, gene-editing science has been limited to making small, precise edits to human DNA, akin to correcting typos in the genetic code. Arc Institute researchers are changing that paradigm with ...

SAN DIEGO (Oct. 1, 2025) – Recent studies led by an international consortium of researchers, including scientists from the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance and the Museo de Historia Natural de la ...

Optimized approach for universal chromosomal DNA rearrangements achieves as high as 20% insertion efficiency, mobilizing genomic DNA at the megabase scale.

The Slovak Academy of Sciences (SAV) published a long-awaited report on the composition of Covid-19 vaccines, a renowned Slovak biotech company announced it had applied for a grant to expand its ...

This technology could be used to promote timely lifestyle changes or to design health policies, but experts warn of its potential misuse by insurers or banks ...

They are using the pattern recognition capabilities of AI to sort a cacophony of caws and rumbles and chatter into individual units that may carry meaning, and then trying to match those units with ...

The viruses in question are bacteriophages, which only infect bacteria – they can’t infect humans, or any other animals for that matter. But applications of this technology have the potential to ...