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Here’s a well-done article by my friend Berin Szoka of the TechFreedom think tank. An excerpt: When I got tested in 2011, I was the first to ask my doctor’s office about genetic results. Exasperated with the transition to electronic

Actress Blake Lively’s father was one of the first patients at the University of Utah in what looks like a groundbreaking procedure. Here’s a video as well. video platformvideo managementvideo solutionsvideo player

The test has been on the market since 2007, and now the FDA says something? Allowing consumers to get direct access to their own data doesn’t seem like much of a safety issue. If 23andMe’s tests are not as accurate

A British television station recently produced a fun film about women (with an average age of 80) who are redefining fashion for their age group. Dressing your age? I think not. Here’s the story.

From Wired UK: “America put a man on the Moon in less than a decade. I said a full decade to provide some wiggle room,” Stuart K Williams told Wired.co.uk. Williams is heading up the hugely ambitious project as executive

Health-savvy consumers will love the fact that soon they’ll be able to go into a Walgreens to get their blood tested using only a finger prick instead of a needle in the arm. Kudos to Theranos for making it happen.

Another great bioengineering study. This one showing the possibility of repairing organs simply by injecting them with engineered endothelial cells. Here’s the press release: Damaged or diseased organs may someday be healed with an injection of blood vessel cells, eliminating

Will a person’s own brain cells be used to repair their brain one day? Maybe. Here’s an article that discusses the potential first steps — taking brain cells from a living person and growing more of them. From the Third

Today’s news that Google is launching a new company (Calico) to fight aging is epic. Epic. Fighting aging used to be the realm of biologists and doctors, but now that the engineers are getting involved, progress will likely move much

A genome is a genome is a genome? Not always. Turns out that many people can have more than one genome in their body at once. Now that sequencing has become cheaper to do, all sorts of interesting data like