Sublime

As documented by Sherwin Nuland, clinical professor of surgery at Yale University and National Book Award winner for How We Die: Reflections on Life’s Final Chapter, many Americans have fallen prey to the idea, now avidly marketed by many big players in the health care industry, that medicine can offer a remedy to nature.

medicine will need to re-engineer the most fundamental structures and processes of the human body,

The coming wave is defined by two core technologies: artificial intelligence (AI) and synthetic biology. Together they will usher in a new dawn for humanity, creating wealth and surplus unlike anything ever seen. And yet their rapid proliferation also threatens to empower a diverse array of bad actors to unleash disruption, instability, and even ca

Twentieth-century medicine aimed to heal the sick. Twenty-first-century medicine is increasingly aiming to upgrade the healthy.

Suppose you’ve been diagnosed with cancer, and the traditional treatments—surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation therapy—have failed. What happens next will determine whether you live or die. The first step is to get the tumor’s genome sequenced. Companies like Foundation Medicine in Cambridge, Massachusetts, will do that for you: send them a sample