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.

Since he was a child, James Peyer has been obsessed with stopping aging. Now he has a fund — and a plan.

After watching medical records get traded for billions of dollars, a tech entrepreneur says he can help you grab a share of the bounty.

Investors and families are counting on Onno Faber to galvanize research into neglected conditions—like the one threatening his hearing and sight.

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

An engineer lights up tiny tumors that doctors can’t see.

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

A wonder material goes to work inside the body.

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