Health

Jargon from the pre-genomics era blinds us to new possibilities.

Craig Venter is betting that something is lurking in your body and you’d better address it now.

A trailblazing genetic scan could bring the tools of precision medicine to a woefully understudied field.

Maverick scientists, a blissful free diver, and (of course) sex and drugs lit up our top articles of the year.

Nobel laureates and billionaires fight to sell you what they hope is a longevity pill.

Why replacement organs will come from a farm.

Gregory Stock is ready for cloning, gene editing, and conscious AI. But first he’s trying to get you better health care.

Leroy Hood, pioneer of systems biology, is trying to upend medicine with a service that tests everything about you. by David Ewing Duncan

The secrets in your genes may be worth even more to researchers than they are to you.

MIT dropout Laura Deming is on the hunt for causes of disease and mechanisms for quashing it.

The strange saga of a dying researcher desperate to cure herpes.

Dogfish sharks produce a remarkable antibacterial compound that might halt symptoms of Parkinson’s disease.

Elite athletes have a greater variety of bacteria in their guts than couch potatoes do, raising the prospect of “poop doping.”

Back by popular demand: more great reading recommendations from people shaping the future of our species.

They’ve been ahead of the curve on personal health tracking and citizen science. What will their doctors and the rest of us learn from their data addiction?