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Sure, your brain is more dynamic than once thought. But harnessing those powers is tricky.

How you track your steps matters way less than who you do it with.

Lucy McRae provokes us to vividly imagine alternate futures.

A professor in China builds a brain-machine interface that keeps humans fully in charge.

Dog breeder David Ishee thinks gene editing can spare purebreds from debilitating disorders. But getting the tech to work is just the start.

Karl Deisseroth developed astounding technologies that light up the brain and render it transparent. Yet some of his most compelling breakthroughs still come from listening to patients.

The first company to offer whole genome sequencing for free can build the most valuable advertising engine in the world.

He built a powerful system for launching scientific ideas into startups. Can he do it again?

“I’m just a girl living with type 1 diabetes who got tired of waiting.”

After watching medical records get traded for billions of dollars, a tech entrepreneur says he can help you grab a share of the bounty.

An electrical-stimulation technology with promising new uses comes from a dark age that still has a lot to teach us.

What if your steak came from the greenhouse instead of the slaughterhouse?

Protein designers are preparing for quantum computers to point the way to new cures and green materials.

It’s made out of living human cells. Someday they could be yours.

Freezing ovarian tissue is classified as experimental. Maybe it shouldn’t be.