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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