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Manufactured meat may be safer and better — but first, producers need to get rid of the icky ingredients.

Analyzing your pet’s genome may shed light on human aging, mental health, and cancer.

Gene tests for antidepressants are going mainstream — and getting more confusing. Here’s a guide.

Soon, precision medicine could help you avoid expensive, risky procedures that you may not need.

A new device claims to go beyond sleep tracking to reset your circadian rhythm.

A new epigenetic test that tracks molecular aging claims to show you how to stay biologically young.

No more metal: Living electrodes promise safer, better ways to fix injuries and disease and grow new links between man and machine.

There’s gold in your gut—and startups are mining it with microbiome science. The biggest hurdle? Stool doesn’t scale.

Sleepless babies can drive modern parents to desperation. Can bots, algorithms, and apps actually help?

Survive massive trauma, lose weight in your sleep, maintain muscle strength in space — all thanks to tricks from sleeping squirrels.

Newly discovered variants let women predict their fertility — and overall health.

Since he was a child, James Peyer has been obsessed with stopping aging. Now he has a fund — and a plan.

Sara Riggare can’t finish her PhD because an ethics committee says she needed their approval first.

Antibacterial compounds are no longer in your hand soap, but they’re in your floors, your walls, and in your body.

This tech could boost fertility and fine-tune hormone levels.