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A Proactive Way to Detect Cancer at Its Earliest Stages

In November 2016, German-American entrepreneur Cyriac Roeding read a profile of Sam Gambhir, a physician and scientist at Stanford...

The Sci-Fi Dream of a ‘Molecular Computer’ Is Getting More Real

David Leigh dreams of building a small machine. Really small. Something minuscule. Or more...

A Bold Effort to Cure HIV—Using Crispr

In July, an HIV-positive man became the first volunteer in a clinical trial aimed at using Crispr gene editing...

There’s New Proof Crispr Can Edit Genes Inside Human Bodies

A decade ago, biologists Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier published a landmark paper describing a natural immune system found...

To Understand Brain Disorders, Consider the Astrocyte

Imagine the brain as the night sky—an expansive sea of tissue dotted with cells of all shapes and sizes....

A GMO Purple Tomato Is Coming to Stores. Will the US Bite?

In December 2004, plant scientist Cathie Martin went to the greenhouse to check on her tomatoes. The tiny...

This Follicle-Hacking Drug Could One Day Treat Baldness

Denise Jones quit her job because she was losing her hair. Diagnosed with the autoimmune disease alopecia areata...

This Man Set the Record for Wearing a Brain-Computer Interface

Nathan Copeland considers himself a cyborg. The 36-year-old has lived with a brain-computer interface for more than seven...

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