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Features
The Next Brain Implant is a Real Live Wire
No more metal: Living electrodes promise safer, better ways to fix injuries and disease and grow new links between man and machine.
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Emily Mullin
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The Latest Biotech Growth Market Might be Crap
There’s gold in your gut—and startups are mining it with microbiome science. The biggest hurdle? Stool doesn’t scale.
By
Jessica Leber
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My Baby Won’t Sleep. Help Me AI, You’re My Only Hope.
Sleepless babies can drive modern parents to desperation. Can bots, algorithms, and apps actually help?
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Elizabeth Preston
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What Can Hibernation Do for Humans?
Survive massive trauma, lose weight in your sleep, maintain muscle strength in space — all thanks to tricks from sleeping squirrels.
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Katharine Gammon
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These Genes May Help You Read Your Biological Clock
Newly discovered variants let women predict their fertility — and overall health.
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Julia Faith Sklar
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Q&A
This Scientist-Turned-VC Wants to Extend Life
Since he was a child, James Peyer has been obsessed with stopping aging. Now he has a fund — and a plan.
By
Karen Weintraub
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Who Says You Need Permission to Study Yourself?
Sara Riggare can’t finish her PhD because an ethics committee says she needed their approval first.
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Emily Mullin
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The FDA Banned These Chemicals — and They’re Still Everywhere
Antibacterial compounds are no longer in your hand soap, but they’re in your floors, your walls, and in your body.
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Maryn McKenna
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Bioengineered Ovaries Can Survive in Mice. Humans Are Next.
This tech could boost fertility and fine-tune hormone levels.
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Emily Mullin
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Let’s Not Overstretch Neuroplasticity
Sure, your brain is more dynamic than once thought. But harnessing those powers is tricky.
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Maia Szalavitz
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REVIEW
What My Smart Shoes Taught Me
How you track your steps matters way less than who you do it with.
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Jessica Carew Kraft
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PROFILE
This Artist Shows Why Science is Too Important to Be Left to Scientists
Lucy McRae provokes us to vividly imagine alternate futures.
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Gemma Milne
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The Limits of Computers That Read Our Minds
A professor in China builds a brain-machine interface that keeps humans fully in charge.
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Yiting Sun
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PROFILE
Biohacking Is a Bitch
Dog breeder David Ishee thinks gene editing can spare purebreds from debilitating disorders. But getting the tech to work is just the start.
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Alissa Greenberg
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The Trickiest Brain Exploration of All
Karl Deisseroth developed astounding technologies that light up the brain and render it transparent. Yet some of his most compelling breakthroughs still come from listening to patients.
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Alizeh Iqbal
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