What's new in biology: July 2026

Niko McCarty and Saloni Dattani review important things happening in the world of biotechnology and medicine.The holy grail of cancer therapy. Roughly half of all cancers have a mutation in p53, one of the most important proteins in our body. It protects us against cancer by acting as a checkpoint: when a cell’s DNA is damaged, p53 can pause the cell to help it repair the damage, or trigger the cell to self-destruct before it becomes cancerous. Destroying mutant p53, or restoring the function of...