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Leroy Hood, pioneer of systems biology, is trying to upend medicine with a service that tests everything about you.

A handy chart for sorting out many of the options in DNA analysis.

Lou Auguste harnesses robotics and software to amp up remote medicine.

Doctors could soon prescribe screen time for children with ADHD.

Companies are using your DNA to customize a diet plan. If it works, it might not be for the reasons advertised.

The secrets in your genes may be worth even more to researchers than they are to you.

Lab-grown meat is still weird. This tiny startup is spawning something better.

MIT dropout Laura Deming is on the hunt for causes of disease and mechanisms for quashing it.

Sophia Roosth puts big questions to the people who are reviving extinct species and building organisms from scratch.

The strange saga of a dying researcher desperate to cure herpes.

Geoffrey West’s monumental book “Scale” channels math and physics to explore the limits of our biology, our companies, and our civilization.

Dogfish sharks produce a remarkable antibacterial compound that might halt symptoms of Parkinson’s disease.

A genetic hackathon becomes a treasure hunt.

Elite athletes have a greater variety of bacteria in their guts than couch potatoes do, raising the prospect of “poop doping.”

Hit with a rare disease, Onno Faber formed a startup to hack it — and he’s taking on conventional medicine in the process.