Beyond Inheritance by Roxanne Khamsi: A Review
An inaugural entry in HD Reads. Roxanne Khamsi’s Beyond Inheritance is the most important popular biology book of 2026 to date, and the foundation text for a way of seeing…
Clonal Hematopoiesis (CHIP): The Cardiovascular Risk Hidden in Your Blood
By age seventy, somewhere between ten and twenty percent of people carry a population of mutated blood stem cells that quietly double their risk of heart disease. The condition has…
Mosaic Aging: Why Your Organs Age at Different Rates, and Why It Matters
A growing body of work argues that the body does not age all at once. It ages in tiles. The pace at which your fastest-aging organ breaks down, not the…
The Hashimoto’s Breakthrough: Somatic Mutations and the New Model of Autoimmune Disease
A landmark Nature study finds that Hashimoto’s thyroiditis is driven in part by acquired somatic mutations that disable the immune system’s brakes. A new model of autoimmune disease is taking…
The Mosaic Body: How Your Cells Are Quietly Mutating, and Why It’s Rewriting Medicine
A new picture of the human body is emerging from the world’s genome sequencers, and it is not the one most of us were taught. We are not single, settled…
How Adrian Woolfson Is Helping Medicine Move From Reading DNA to Writing It
Adrian Woolfson trained under a Nobel laureate at Cambridge, ran global oncology programs at the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies, and led research and development at Sangamo Therapeutics during the first…
Healthtech Wearables: 250+ Devices Across 17 Categories
From FDA-cleared ECG watches to at-home brain stimulation headsets, 250+ devices across 17 categories are reshaping how we monitor, measure, and improve our health. This is the most comprehensive wearable…
Seven Days Off Plastic Cut Endocrine Disruptors in Half: Inside the PERTH Trial
A new Nature Medicine randomized controlled trial shows seven days of avoiding plastic in food, kitchenware, and personal care cut urinary phthalates by more than 44 percent and bisphenols by…
Longevity Escape Velocity, Explained Through Isomorphic Labs
Ray Kurzweil has spent two decades arguing that by 2029, medical progress will add more than a year to your remaining life expectancy for every year that passes. A Nobel-laureate…
The Undruggable 80 Percent: Why AI Is Cracking the Proteins Medicine Couldn’t Touch
For four decades, a single protein drove roughly a third of all human cancers, and nobody could build a drug against it. Here is why that story is finally changing,…
