NATURE BRIEFING

26 October 2026

What biologists think of Dawkins’s big idea now. Plus. how the subject of a new film haunts science and a bacterium that makes its own MOFs.

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In You Can See Everything , filmmaker Nathan Fielder (left) captured Elizabeth Holmes’s final days with her family before she went to prison for defrauding investors. Credit: A24/Everett Collection

What did biotech learn from Theranos?

Elizabeth Holmes and her failed blood-testing start-up, Theranos — subject of the new documentary You Can See Everything — left “a crater in the whole field of monitoring and diagnostics”, says bioengineer Paul Yager.…