What’s new in biology: May 2026

Niko McCarty and Saloni Dattani review important things happening in the world of biotechnology and medicine. This is the last week to apply to Invisible College, our week-long seminar in Cambridge in August. If you are 18–22 years old, bright, ambitious, and interested in ideas: apply! Applications close on Friday 8th May.The first gene therapy for deafness earns FDA approval. About sixty percent of all babies born deaf have some underlying genetic cause, and mutations in the OTOF gene account ...