The Wild Type is a weekly look at the most interesting thing happening in biotech.
Aug 25, 2026
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3 min read
A pod of orcas in Australia spent almost a century hunting alongside human whalers by mutual arrangement, which tells you something uncomfortable about why orcas have never killed any of us.
Aug 11, 2026
Have sleeping pills have ever actually given anyone sleep?
PHENOTYPE
Jul 25, 2026
1 min read
An octopus keeps two thirds of its neurons in its arms
Jul 23, 2026
6 min read
There is a sugar that tastes exactly like sugar and has no calories...
Jul 16, 2026
5 min read
Every glowing protein came out of an animal. Until this one.
Jul 9, 2026
4 min read
A man let snakes bite him about 200 times to help build a universal antivenom.
Jul 2, 2026
The billion dollar wolf.
