Once an organ is removed from a donor’s body, the clock starts ticking. Surgeons usually flush the organ with a preservative solution, bag it, and put it on ice—where it immediately starts to degrade. The team has a matter of hours to get it into a recipient’s body. There’s another option—one that has been growing…
Artificial intelligence can draw cat pictures and write emails. Now, the same technology can compose a working genome. A research team in California says it used AI to propose new genetic codes for viruses—and managed to get several of these to replicate and kill bacteria. The scientists, based at Stanford University and the non-profit Arc…
From Startup Battlefield in 2013 to the Disrupt Stage in 2018: Discord founder Jason Citron returns to TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 in San Francisco on October 27-29. Register here to join.
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