Categorized in Two sick children and a $1.5 million bill: One family’s race for a gene therapy cureOne day, gene therapy may help with the rarest of diseases. Some parents aren’t waiting.
Categorized in Sociogenomics is opening a new door to eugenicsNew ways of using your genetic data could bolster scientific racism and encourage discrimination.
Categorized in Artificial intelligenceYour next doctor’s appointment might be with an AIA new wave of chatbots are replacing physicians and providing frontline medical advice—but are they as good as the real thing?
Categorized in BiotechnologyWe can now customize cancer treatments, tumor by tumorBut can any company afford to manufacture one-off medical care?
Categorized in Humans and technologyThe smartphone app that can tell you’re depressed before you know it yourselfAnalyzing the way you type and scroll can reveal as much as a psychological test.
Categorized in Humans and technologyDigital immortality: How your life’s data means a version of you could live foreverYour family and friends will be able to interact with a digital “you” that doles out advice—even when you’re gone.
Categorized in BiotechnologyWant to know when you’re going to die?Your life span is written in your DNA, and we’re learning to read the code.