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Evolution’s Secret Ingredient
“The Rise of Yeast” explains how one fungus altered history.
By
Ron Shigeta
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PROFILE
Angela Belcher Commands a Virus to Hunt a Deadly Cancer
An engineer lights up tiny tumors that doctors can’t see.
By
Tinker Ready
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Keep Running, Never Get Over the Hill
Elite athletes are now maintaining their level of performance in their 40s and beyond. What can they teach the rest of us?
By
Jessica Carew Kraft
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REVIEW
Forget Sleep Tracking—Try Sleep Hacking
A review of three devices: SleepScore Max, Eight Sleep, and Dreem.
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Bob Parks
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PROFILE
The Birth of Wetware
Forget what you may have heard about neural networks in software. This startup is making a computer with living neurons.
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Alissa Greenberg
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BOOK REVIEW
DNA Is Overrated
Genes play a refreshingly limited role in Carl Zimmer’s new book about heredity.
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Lee Cooper
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EXCERPT
Shake Up the Snow Globe in Your Mind
Michael Pollan explores the neuroscience of psychedelics in this excerpt from his new book.
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Michael Pollan
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Machine Learning Illuminates the Body’s Dark Matter
A startup finds patterns that experts in personalized medicine say they couldn’t see before.
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Shelby Pope
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Q&A
Longevity, the Greatest Investment Opportunity of All Time
Billionaire Jim Mellon bets that a “stock market mania” will be sparked by technologies that make people live past 100.
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Brian Bergstein
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Get Up To Speed on Life Extension
Jamie Metzl makes you smarter about the science of longevity research.
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proto.life
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EXCERPT
Our Genetic Legacy
I am not afraid of the prospect of editing human genes. If we do it thoughtfully, it can be a gift to future generations.
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Daisy Robinton
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Tiny Food Factories
These startups are brewing up ways to save seafood, turn gas into protein, and make dairy alternatives less gross.
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proto.life
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The Time Has Come for a Better Breast Pump
Hackers take on everything that makes breastfeeding harder than it should be.
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Anna Nowogrodzki
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I Have Mixed Feelings About the Robot That Cooked My Dinner
The idea of a restaurant where a machine does the work of human hands made me cringe. Then I tried it.
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Brian Bergstein
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Death Is Weirder Than You Think
Why do some genes get more active when life ends?
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Stephanie Pappas
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