The Download: biotech’s future and cheaper, cleaner steel
MIT Technology Review highlights young innovators in biotechnology and a new, cost-effective steelmaking process. The article showcases advancements in gene editing, longevity tech, and a furnace design that reduces emissions by using natural gas.
Why it matters
These innovations represent critical steps toward decarbonizing heavy industry and advancing medical treatments for rare diseases.
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This is today's edition of The Download , our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology.
Every year, MIT Technology Review puts together our 35 Innovators Under 35 , a list of some of the brightest and best young minds working across science and technology. This year’s honorees include nine people transforming biotech, whose work spans everything from lifesaving innovations to groundbreaking longevity tech.
Their innovations include a “reprogramming” therapy that reverses vision loss, tiny brain electrodes inspired by Japanese art, and a personalized gene-editing treatment for a baby with a rare genetic disorder. There are even efforts to design new viruses with generative AI, which (hopefully) will produce new drugs or soak up pollution.
Get to know the biotech innovators behind these breakthroughs .
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