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proto.life’s 10 Most Popular Stories in 2017
Maverick scientists, a blissful free diver, and (of course) sex and drugs lit up our top articles of the year.
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The End of Hangovers
Leave it to the Brits to invent a synthetic alcohol that gets you properly pickled and doesn’t make you feel poisoned.
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Zoe Cormier
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The Life Extension Death Match
Nobel laureates and billionaires fight to sell you what they hope is a longevity pill.
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Karen Weintraub
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The Ride of the Venture Valkyrie
From printed skin to augmented reality, Lisa Suennen channels her inner goddess to divine which health technologies people will actually use.
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Kat McGowan
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Can Cloned Pigs Save Dying Humans?
Why replacement organs will come from a farm.
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Elizabeth Preston
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Liver Failing? Grow Some New Ones
A startup’s wild idea for creating organ factories in the body.
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Brian Bergstein
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The proto.life Holiday Gift Guide
Holiday Gift Guide
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proto.life
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Zap Your Pain Away
A biomedical startup is tuning electrical stimulation devices to your specifications so you won’t need pills.
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Stephanie Pappas
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When a Double-Chocolate Brownie is Better for You Than Quinoa
A $299 microbiome test from DayTwo turns up some counterintuitive dietary advice.
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Richard Sprague
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Renegades Join Forces for Affordable Insulin
But can they manufacture it at scale?
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Rob Waters
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China Doubles Down on the Double Helix
From sleepless startups to huge sequencing centers, genomics is booming in China. Will other countries get left behind?
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Yiting Sun
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Bring on the Post-Human Future
Gregory Stock is ready for cloning, gene editing, and conscious AI. But first he’s trying to get you better health care.
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Brian Bergstein
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A Composer and a Neuroscientist Walk into a Bar …
That’s no joke! If it were, there’d have been a third person in the bar. There’s always a third person to bear the brunt of…
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Michael Hawley
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6 Amazing Things to Watch in Synthetic Biology
Teleported molecules, custom genomes, and other innovations that will deliver on the technology’s biggest promises.
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Diana Crow
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Why We Loved “Orphan Black”
A thriller about cloning, gene editing, and bioengineering is the perfect show for our times.
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Elizabeth Preston
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