Health

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.

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

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.”

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?

Too hot for UCLA: Nicole Prause wants you to have more orgasms … so she can study them.

Supplements and the people who take them.

Pot is being packaged like fine wines and sold with bold claims about physical and psychological benefits. Does science back up the marketing pitch?

Sham treatments that work even when you know they’re fakes.

Yuval Noah Harari’s book is right that humans have developed God-like powers, but it’s wrong about the reasons — and it underestimates what will come. by Juan Enriquez