“Pig hearts to be tested in humans” read a headline in the Financial Times in September 1995. The article quoted confident predictions that porcine hearts, genetically engineered to avoid rejection, would be transplanted into patients the following year — helping to ease the worldwide shortage of human organs. More than 25 years passed before that forecast finally came true. Last month surgeons at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore successfully replaced the failing heart of a 57-year-old man with a fresh one from a pig with 10 gene edits. Four weeks later the patient, David Bennett, continues…

Here's how the mobile customer experience will likely evolve in the next decade. Nobody (except for Steve Jobs, maybe) could have predicted the impact of the iPhone when it was introduced in 2007. Countless other smartphones have since been released with exquisite hardware features like advanced cameras, 4K resolution and giant screens. But it wasn't these features that made people rapidly adopt smartphones-- it was the experiences these devices provide, like global social networks, music streaming, online shopping and many others. With the help of evolving technology, smartphones will enable even more groundbreaking mobile experiences in the next decade-- ones…

The most popular phone since the millennium has been revealed and many will be shocked to find out it’s NOT an iPhone. Despite the Apple handset’s massive success since 2007, not one of the models have been able to topple an earlier giant. In fact, the majority of the top five were all released in the noughties. 2014’s iPhone 6/6+ saw 222.40million handsets sold, making it Apple’s most successful smartphone. But that only puts it at number two. The number one has been revealed as old school favourite, the Nokia 1100. The device, which boasted Snake and a built-in flashlight,…

This glowing microneedle test could catalyze a transition from blood-based diagnostics to a stick-on patch. A river of biological information flows just beneath the outermost layers of your skin, in which a hodgepodge of proteins squeeze past each other through the interstitial fluid surrounding your cells. This "interstitium" is an expansive and structured space, making it, to some, a newfound “organ.” But its wealth of biomarkers for conditions like tuberculosis, heart attacks, and cancer has attracted growing attention from researchers looking to upend reliance on diagnostic tools they say are inefficient, invasive, and blood-centric. "Blood is a tiny fraction of…