Business Impact Why Qualcomm Is Betting on Wireless Health One of the world’s largest chip makers is helping to instigate a boom in wireless health devices. by Jon Cohen 2013-09-30T00:00:00-04:00
Business Impact This Doctor Will Save You Money Eric Topol is on a mission to get health care out of the mess it’s in. by Jon Cohen 2013-09-09T00:00:00-04:00
Rewriting Life Memory Implants A maverick neuroscientist believes he has deciphered the code by which the brain forms long-term memories. by Jon Cohen 2013-04-23T00:00:00-04:00
Rewriting Life The Machine That Will Help End TB Nearly 1.5 million people die from tuberculosis every year, even though most cases can be cured with routine antibiotic treatments. One country’s fight to get the ancient scourge under control has an unlikely hero: a simple diagnostic test. by Jon Cohen 2012-12-11T00:00:00-05:00
Rewriting Life The Patient of the Future Internet pioneer Larry Smarr’s quest to quantify everything about his health led him to a startling discovery, an unusual partnership with his doctor, and more control over his life. by Jon Cohen 2012-02-21T00:00:00-05:00
Rewriting Life Public Mea Culpas Scientists and the journals that publish them have a difficult time admitting to mistakes. That does real harm to both their disciplines and the public. by Jon Cohen 2011-10-25T00:00:00-04:00
Rewriting Life The Human Genome, a Decade Later Ten years after scientists finished mapping our DNA, they have many unanswered questions. by Jon Cohen 2010-12-21T00:00:00-05:00
Rewriting Life Can AIDS Be Cured? Drugs can control HIV, but they exact a steep cost. Now, researchers are pursuing radical new ways to eliminate the infection entirely. by Jon Cohen 2010-06-22T00:00:00-04:00
Biotechnology The Genetics of Language Researchers are beginning to crack the code that gives humans our way with words. by Jon Cohen 2007-12-18T00:00:00-05:00
Rewriting Life Sequencing in a Flash A new generation of DNA-sequencing machines is opening up whole new areas of genomic research. Already, researchers are unraveling how modern humans differ from Neanderthals and devising more precise tests for cancer. by Jon Cohen 2007-05-01T00:00:00-04:00
