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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
From FDA-cleared ECG watches to at-home brain stimulation headsets, 257 devices across 17 categories are reshaping how we monitor, measure, and improve our health. This is the most comprehensive wearable…
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…
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…
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,…
Five Nobel laureates are quietly orbiting Isomorphic Labs, the Alphabet-backed company trying to use artificial intelligence to end the world’s deadliest diseases. What they are building would have been science…
A foundation model company just paid $400 million in stock for a team of fewer than 10 people. The implications for drug discovery, precision medicine, and the entire healthcare AI…
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