Body, Mind & Medicine
Explore how medicine, biology, and the mind shape human health and longevity.
The Shortest Path to the Brain Runs Through the Nose | Lawrence Fine, CEO and Co-Founder of AGCP Farmacêuticos, Lisbon
Nasal drug delivery could offer a promising route for delivering medicines to the brain while bypassing the blood-brain barrier, with…
Physicians Don’t Have to Sell Their Practices to Survive | Ben Phillips, San Francisco Bay Area
Selling a medical practice is often seen as the natural solution to mounting administrative burdens, complex insurance contracts, and financial…
The Next Great Life Sciences Investments May Be Building the Machinery Behind Biology
Life sciences investment is moving beyond the simple hunt for breakthrough science toward a broader opportunity: building the platforms, infrastructure…
Latest Body, Mind & Medicine
Bioinformatics Is Becoming the Operating System for Biology
Bioinformatics was once the discipline that helped scientists make sense of biological data. It is becoming something much more ambitious.…
The Fitness Tracker Is Becoming Something Much Bigger
Fitness technology is moving beyond counting steps and workouts toward continuously understanding how an individual responds to exercise, creating a…
The Brain Is Becoming a New Interface. Who Will Build the World Around It?
For decades, computers have been designed around the limits of the human body: keyboards, screens, microphones, cameras and touchscreens. Neurotechnology…
The Hospital May Be Becoming Less Important
The future of healthcare may depend less on building bigger hospitals and more on building systems that know when a…
Your Body May Be Telling You How Fast You Are Ageing Without You Knowing It
The next generation of longevity medicine may use the ordinary patterns of everyday life to understand how each person's health…
The Next Human-Machine Revolution May Begin When You Stop Giving Computers Instructions
The next stage of human-machine symbiosis may not begin with a computer inside your brain. It may begin with something…