r/Futurology • • Jul 13 '26

Biotech Scientists found a bacterium in the gut of a Japanese tree frog that eliminated colorectal tumors in 100% of treated mice with a single intravenous dose, outperforming standard chemotherapy and immunotherapy. The results are preclinical, published in Gut Microbes, and human trials are the next step.

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r/Futurology • • Jul 22 '26

Biotech Biohacker Bryan Johnson Claims He 'Cloned' Himself as a Newborn to Grow Organs After Incurable Disease Diagnosis

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r/Futurology • • Jun 08 '26

Biotech It may one day be possible to reap some of the benefits of sleep without ever closing our eyes. Stimulating specific brain activity in awake mice led to some of the same effects as deep sleep, including a boost in memory.

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r/Futurology • • Jun 05 '26

Biotech Popular GLP-1 drug may slow down biological aging, analysis indicates.

4.4k Upvotes

Wow, what can't these GLP-1 drugs do? Not only making you thin, but boosts for cardiovascular health, blood pressure & inflammation related illness & apparently improving outlooks for some cancers, too.

As they are now entering their generic era in territories around the world (India, Brazil & Canada in 2026), we should start to see dramatic health improvements in these countries.

Popular GLP-1 drug may slow down biological aging, analysis indicates

r/Futurology • • Jun 20 '26

Biotech Stanford scientists successfully regrow lost cartilage and reverse arthritis in new study

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r/Futurology • • Jan 26 '26

Biotech Moderna doesn’t plan to invest in new late-stage vaccine trials because of growing opposition to immunizations from US officials

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8.0k Upvotes

r/Futurology • • Feb 11 '25

Biotech ‘No Kill’ Meat has finally hit the shelves. Meat grown in a lab is being sold in a shop in the UK. Beginning of the end of Factory Farming?

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r/Futurology • • Mar 15 '25

Biotech Cancer Vaccines Are Suddenly Looking Extremely Promising

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futurism.com
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r/Futurology • • Oct 25 '24

Biotech GLP-1s like Ozempic are among the most important drug breakthroughs

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r/Futurology • • Sep 23 '23

Biotech Terrible Things Happened to Monkeys After Getting Neuralink Implants, According to Veterinary Records

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21.6k Upvotes

r/Futurology • • Oct 21 '24

Biotech Scientists could soon resurrect the Tasmanian tiger. Should we be worried?

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r/Futurology • • Oct 13 '22

Biotech 'Our patients aren't dead': Inside the freezing facility with 199 humans who opted to be cryopreserved with the hopes of being revived in the future

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r/Futurology • • Jan 14 '23

Biotech Scientists Have Reached a Key Milestone in Learning How to Reverse Aging

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time.com
22.0k Upvotes

r/Futurology • • Mar 23 '22

Biotech A 99% effective Birth Control Pill for Men Could Start Human Trials This Year

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gizmodo.com
64.9k Upvotes

r/Futurology • • Jan 24 '23

Biotech Anti-ageing gene injections could rewind your heart age by 10 years

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r/Futurology • • Mar 08 '26

Biotech 2026 Could Be The Year We Finally Cure Cancer As BioNTech’s mRNA Vaccines Finish Phase 3

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r/Futurology • • Oct 25 '22

Biotech Beyond Meat is rolling out its steak substitute in grocery stores

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r/Futurology • • Mar 01 '22

Biotech Jeff Bezos is looking to defy death – this is what we know about the science of aging.

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theconversation.com
26.8k Upvotes

r/Futurology • • Aug 27 '22

Biotech Scientists Grow “Synthetic” Embryo With Brain and Beating Heart – Without Eggs or Sperm

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r/Futurology • • Oct 17 '24

Biotech De-extinction company Colossal claims it has nearly complete thylacine genome

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r/Futurology • • Jun 24 '25

Biotech CRISPR used to remove extra chromosomes in Down syndrome and restore human cell function. Japanese scientists discovered that removing the unneeded copy using CRISPR gene-editing normalized gene expression in laboratory-grown human cells.

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7.4k Upvotes

r/Futurology • • Jun 08 '21

Biotech Why Lab-Grown Meat Is Emerging As The Most Impactful Step To Reverse Climate Change

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55.2k Upvotes

r/Futurology • • Jul 23 '22

Biotech A Dutch cultivated meat company is able to grow sausages from a single pig cell with a fraction of the environmental impact of traditional meat

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r/Futurology • • Mar 22 '22

Biotech Children born in 50 years might celebrate their 150th birthdays, say anti-aging experts

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inews.co.uk
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r/Futurology • • May 22 '24

Biotech 85% of Neuralink implant wires are already detached, says patient

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9.0k Upvotes