Monthly Archives: September 2022

Two inhaled covid vaccines have been approved—but we don’t know yet how good they are

The covid-19 pandemic is still not over. And while injected vaccines provide good protection from severe disease, they don’t stop us from catching the virus or spreading it to others.  Vaccines that you inhale through the nose or mouth, on the other hand, potentially could. In the last week, regulatory bodies in both India and…

Synthetic DNA startup Catalog partners with Seagate for its DNA-based data storage platform

Data needs to be stored somewhere. However, data storage costs keep growing, and the data people keep producing and consuming can’t keep up with the available storage. According to Internet Data Center (IDC), global data is projected to increase to 175 zettabytes in 2025, up from 33 zettabytes in 2018. Catalog, a Boston-based startup, has…