The US military’s race to make fake blood
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This newsletter from MIT Technology Review covers DARPA's $73 million project to develop shelf-stable dried blood products for military use, WeLion New Energy's semi-solid-state batteries as a climate tech to watch, and a podcast exploring whether GLP-1 weight-loss drugs can slow biological aging. It also includes a roundup of tech news stories.
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