The Arrhythmia of our Current Age
The rhythms of life seem off. Can we restore a steady beat?
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Stolen Words: COVID, Ketamine, and Me
A Vanity Fair contributor’s encounter with psychedelics helped him emerge from a pandemic brain fog that had snatched away his ability to write.
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The Next Climate Change Calamity?
We’re Ruining the Microbiome, According to Human-Genome-Pioneer Craig Venter
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The Next Best Version of Me: How to Live Forever
Researchers want to synthesize an optimized human genome that can be stored indefinitely and grown decades from now. So I volunteered mine.
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The 1000 Faces of George Church
He's Everywhere—a Harvard geneticist whose science fiction visions of the future tend to become real: an essay and Q&A with George Church discussing his hopes and fears for the future.
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Ketamine’s Long, Strange Trip
The Cred of This Miracle Med Has Gotten Murkier and, Somehow, More Promising
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How Science Can Build a Better You
How far would you go to enhance yourself using the latest medical technology?
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How Long Do You Want to Live?
What’s real and what’s not about scientists attempting to extend lifespan—and what would it mean if they succeed?
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A Little Device That’s Trying to Read Your Thoughts
iBrain is a headband with sensors that read brainwaves and turn them into speech, potentially unlocking the thoughts of patients like Stephen Hawking who can’t speak
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On a Mission to Sequence the Genomes of 100,000 People
Harvard geneticist George Church has co-founded or advises some 22 businesses that focus on things like synthetic biology, genetic sequencing and providing genetic testing to consumers…
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Enlisting Computers to Unravel the True Complexity of Disease
Eric Schadt is one of a handful of scientists blending mathematics, biology and supercomputers to pursue a new understanding of human biology…
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