Medicine

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

Sara Riggare can’t finish her PhD because an ethics committee says she needed their approval first.

“I’m just a girl living with type 1 diabetes who got tired of waiting.”

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

An electrical-stimulation technology with promising new uses comes from a dark age that still has a lot to teach us.

It’s made out of living human cells. Someday they could be yours.

Research on aging treatments keeps turning up profound variations in how male and female subjects respond.

A CRISPR startup rewrites tiny mutations instead of cutting and pasting entire genes.

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.

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

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

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

A wonder material goes to work inside the body.