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Experts say recent compromises could create less harm in balancing innovation with profits.

Pfizer and Moderna are skeptical, but we found 10 companies in Africa, Asia and South America well-positioned to produce the gold-standard mRNA shots.

The story of Ginkgo Bioworks shows the challenges and progress in the emerging field of synthetic biology.

Herbicides are losing the war — and agriculture might never be the same again.

as well as trans men and nonbinary people The Great ReadProfiles In Science Reinventing the Uterus, One Organoid at a Time Bioengineer Linda Griffith once grew a human ear on the back of a mouse. Now she is reframing endometriosis — a “women’s disease” — as a key to unlocking some of biology’s greatest secrets. Linda G. Griffith is a professor of biological and mechanical engineering at M.I.T., and its director of the Center for Gynepathology Research. “I don’t want to make endo...

Biologic drugs rack up billions in annual U.S. sales. Here’s a solution to lower the costs. By Peter B. Bach and Mark R. Trusheim Dr. Bach is the director of the Drug Pricing Lab and Center for Health Policy and Outcomes at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Mr. Trusheim is a visiting scientist at the M.I.T. Sloan School of Management. March 15, 2021 Credit...Illustration by Mark Harris; Photographs by Wavebreakmedia and Nerthuz, via Getty Images For around two decades, Roche’s breast ...