Medicine

The Clock is Ticking Faster for a Patient Turned Medical Disruptor

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

Make the Hospital Come to You

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

Angela Belcher Commands a Virus to Hunt a Deadly Cancer

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

Machine Learning Illuminates the Body’s Dark Matter

A startup finds patterns that experts in personalized medicine say they couldn’t see before.

You Can Rescue Medical Breakthroughs from the Valley of Death

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

Round Trips to the Pearly Gates

With better CPR techniques, more people might live to tell the tale of what happens right before everything slips away.

A Silk Robe for Your Next Implant

A wonder material goes to work inside the body.

The Language of DNA Should Rewrite English, Too

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

Bringing Back the Woolly Mammoth Has Already Had an Unintended Consequence

But it’s positive.

The Human Operating System Gets an Overhaul

Forget editing genes. This guy wants to write brand-new ones. by Steven Kotler

Power to the Patients

Racing against his own genetic disorder, Onno Faber is giving people with rare diseases the tools to make medicine work for them.

Will a $5,000 Checkup Save Your Life?

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

The Ride of the Venture Valkyrie

From printed skin to augmented reality, Lisa Suennen channels her inner goddess to divine which health technologies people will actually use.

Can Cloned Pigs Save Dying Humans?

Why replacement organs will come from a farm.

Liver Failing? Grow Some New Ones

A startup’s wild idea for creating organ factories in the body.

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