These Mice Stopped Eating Carbs So You (Maybe) Don't Have To
WIRED New evidence shows that ketogenic diets protect the brain as mice age. And one day you might be able…
Harvey Evacuees Leave Their Belongings—And Health Records—Behind
WIRED Despite the proliferation of electronic medical records, patients still have trouble accessing their history when it matters most. Source:…
A New Way for Doctors to Share Their Medical Mysteries
WIRED It might just reinvent the entire medical publishing process. Source: WIRED
To Protect Genetic Privacy, Encrypt Your DNA
WIRED Sharing your DNA with science could help cure disease. But once it’s out there, you can’t get it back.…
Crispr Fans Dream of a Populist Future for Gene Editing
WIRED Over two days in Berkeley, scientists, CEOs, farmers, conservationists, and citizens gathered to talk about the promise and peril…
James Damore’s Google Memo Gets Science All Wrong
WIRED The science in Damore’s memo is still very much in play. His analysis of its implications is at best…
Want a Diagnosis Tomorrow, Not Next Year? Turn to AI
WIRED By collecting medical knowledge in a superintelligent AI, your GP can order tests or prescribe medications they’d normally outsource.…
New Details on the First Crispr-Edited Human Embryos in the US
WIRED Scientists are excited about how effectively Crispr removed mutations in embryos. But it didn’t work the way they expected.…
Science Says _13 Reasons Why_ May Be the Public Health Scare People Thought
WIRED Google searches for all things suicide spiked in the wake of the Netflix original series premiere, according to new…
A Search for Anti-Aging Secrets Starts With the Blood of 600 Estonians
WIRED BioAge is trying to solve the problem of aging using advanced machine learning, a horde of lab mice, and…