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Crispr has driven biotech investment, but also the possibility of dangerous applications.

Revolutionary work on the body’s immune system and a host of new drug trials mean that beating cancer may be achievable.

Keep on truckin’, Elon.

Active discussion on tne most effective technologies in comments to this page post. Number one is blood plasma-derived therapy.

Money has been pouring into startups researching longevity as treatments for aging become more of a reality. Here are the venture funds and pharma companies placing bets.

In the beginning, there was light, and matter, and antimatter, in an expanding and cooling Universe. But something else happened before.

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Elon Musk is an engineer at heart, a tinkerer, a problem-solver—the kind of person Popular Mechanics has always championed—and the problems he’s trying to solve are hard. Really hard. He could find better ways to spend his money, that’s for sure. And yet there he is, trying to build gasless cars and build reusable rockets and build tunnels that make traffic go away. For all his faults and unpredictability, we need him out there doing that. We need people who have ideas. We need people who take risks.

We need people who try.

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