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Every year, MIT Technology Review<\/em> puts together a list of some of the brightest and best young minds working across science and technology. Our 35 Innovators Under 35 are the ones to watch\u2014people whose research and technical work stands to shape the future of their fields.<\/p>\n This year, the list includes nine people who are transforming biotech. And this week, I\u2019m going to give you a taste of some of the very cool stuff five of them are working on, which includes lifesaving innovations and groundbreaking \u201cage reversal\u201d tech. <\/p>\n 1.\u00a0Preventing maternal deaths<\/strong><\/p>\n Let\u2019s start with Paschal Kija, a 28-year-old who has developed a device to treat postpartum hemorrhage\u2014a dangerous birth complication that contributes to around 29% of maternal deaths in his home country, Tanzania. The Mkanda Salama (\u201cSafe Wrap\u201d in Swahili) is easy to use and costs just $70. A study found that it stopped postpartum bleeding in 73% of women within 20 minutes.<\/p>\n 2.\u00a0Making brain electrodes inspired by Japanese art<\/strong><\/p>\n For decades, scientists have been developing, testing, and implanting brain electrodes. These devices are literally inserted into people\u2019s brains, so while they can help us understand brain activity and treat various neurological disorders, it\u2019s not totally surprising that they can also cause a bit of damage. Xiao Yang, 34, is working on ultra-small electrodes, which she hopes will have less of an impact on surrounding brain tissue. Her electrodes are flexible, too\u2014in fact, they look a lot like actual neurons.<\/p>\n Yang is also creating sheets of electrodes to study brain cells in the lab. Inspired by kirigami\u2014the traditional Japanese art of cutting paper to form three-dimensional shapes\u2014she\u2019s created a sheet of electrodes with a honeycombed structure shaped like a spiral basket. And she\u2019s already using it to study brain cells.<\/p>\n 3.\u00a0Developing an all-new treatment for baby KJ<\/strong><\/p>\n In 2024, Kyle \u201cKJ\u201d Muldoon Jr. was born with a rare and potentially fatal genetic disorder.\u00a0Sarah Grandinette was a member of a team that developed an entirely new, personalized treatment for him\u2014a gene-editing therapy essentially designed to correct a genetic misspelling.<\/p>\n Grandinette, who is now 26, created cells with KJ\u2019s genetic variant and used them to screen gene-editing approaches; then she tested potential medicines in mice and monkeys. KJ ultimately got his first dose of the resulting treatment when he was about seven months old. He responded well and was eventually discharged from hospital. He\u2019s \u201cdoing pretty great,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n 4.\u00a0Reversing the aging process to treat eye disease<\/strong><\/p>\n The buzziest tech in longevity right now centers on reprogramming\u2014attempts to rewind the age of cells by resetting them to a more embryonic-like state. In a study published in 2020, Yuancheng (Ryan) Lu (now 34) and his colleagues showed that a reprogramming therapy reversed vision loss<\/em> in aged, blind mice. Now an almost identical version of that therapy is being tested in people with eye disease. Life Biosciences, the company developing the drug, dosed its first volunteer in June.<\/p>\n 5.\u00a0Using AI to design new viruses<\/strong><\/p>\n Last year, Samuel King used a generative AI model to come up with new genetic blueprints for bacteriophages\u2014teeny viruses that can infect bacteria. Once he had those blueprints, he printed them out as strands of DNA. In experiments, he found that those AI-designed viruses could create new copies of themselves, burst out of bacterial cells, and infect other nearby bacteria. Viruses aren\u2019t alive, but King, 27, hopes that AI-designed life forms might one day be used to make drugs or soak up pollution.<\/p>\n You can read more about these innovators, and the others on the biotech list, here.<\/p>\n This article first appeared in The Checkup,\u00a0<\/em>MIT Technology Review\u2019s\u00a0weekly biotech newsletter. 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