Medicine

Synthetic biologists aim to transform the world with manmade organisms. What will it take to get there?

A Chinese scientist engineered kids to resist HIV. Here are other changes that could be on the feature list for Humanity 2.0.

Soon, precision medicine could help you avoid expensive, risky procedures that you may not need.

No more metal: Living electrodes promise safer, better ways to fix injuries and disease and grow new links between man and machine.

There’s gold in your gut—and startups are mining it with microbiome science. The biggest hurdle? Stool doesn’t scale.

Survive massive trauma, lose weight in your sleep, maintain muscle strength in space — all thanks to tricks from sleeping squirrels.

Newly discovered variants let women predict their fertility — and overall health.

A startup tries to scale up health care that’s cheaper, safer, and much more comfortable.

Halo Cures, a crowdfunding startup, will usher new drugs and devices through the rockiest stage of development.

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 biomedical startup is tuning electrical stimulation devices to your specifications so you won’t need pills.

Teleported molecules, custom genomes, and other innovations that will deliver on the technology’s biggest promises.

Doctors could soon prescribe screen time for children with ADHD.

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