Directed evolution is a protein engineering method that iteratively mutates a gene and screens the resulting proteins for improved function, solving problems rational design cannot. The method earned Frances H. Arnold of Caltech the 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, and its products already span…
An organoid is a three-dimensional cell culture, grown from stem cells or tissue progenitors, that self-organizes into a miniature version of an organ’s architecture and functions. Protocol advances have produced organ-like structures displaying the morphological and functional characteristics…
Omics technologies are measurement methods that read entire classes of molecules at once — genes, RNAs, proteins, metabolites — and single-cell resolution is their current frontier, profiling one cell's transcriptome at a time so tissues resolve into their working parts. The scale is now…
Platform science in early-stage biotech is engineered, reusable biology — a delivery vector, an engineered binding domain, a data architecture — that one company claims can yield many programs rather than one. The claim is cheap; the validation is not. It arrives as published methods, reference…
A Phase 1 trial of CTX310, a lipid-nanoparticle-delivered CRISPR-Cas9 therapy targeting ANGPTL3, produced dose-dependent lipid reductions in 15 adults with uncontrolled dyslipidemia, per the study published in the New England Journal of Medicine in November 2025. At the highest dose, circulating…