Precision Medicine

In the countdown to my second Pfizer dose, I covered my quantified self in a blanket of warm data. Here’s what happened when I pulled apart the threads.

Astropharmacies could grow drugs on demand for future space travelers.

Azizi Seixas uses sleep to study health inequalities—and make us all feel and snooze better.

A telltale COVID-19 symptom underscores the scientific significance of smell—for both patients and practitioners.

Syncing cures with circadian rhythms is an idea whose moment has finally come.

How I hacked my diet using a continuous blood-glucose monitor.

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.

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.

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.

The same device that is driving you crazy could hold the keys to solving our mental health crisis.

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.