Medicine

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.

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

But it’s positive.

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

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

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

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