Vital Signs

Can We Learn to Live Without Death?

I have a friend, Adam, who’s convinced he’ll live forever. To the casual observer this might seem unlikely. Adam smokes and...
Duncan Jefferies
Jun 8, 2016 6 min read

Vital Signs: A Reading List

A crash source in the future of human health.
How We Get To Next
Jun 1, 2016 4 min read

$75 to Walk Again: Tackling Asia’s Prosthetics Crisis

Instead of getting inappropriate secondhand prosthetics from the West, this charity is making their own bespoke ones in Laos.
Lindsey Kennedy
Aug 28, 2015 2 min read

How Ants Will Lead Us to New Antibiotics

You ant seen nothing yet
Alexander Sehmer
Aug 13, 2015 2 min read

5 Artifacts, Animations, and Charts on the Story of Vaccination

Resistance to vaccination has existed ever since vaccination was first discovered.
Hugh Garry
Feb 2, 2015 1 min read

Tampon Club: No Apologies for Menstruation-Based Innovation

If your manager won't provide sanitary products, it's time to take matters into your own hands.
Georgina Voss
Dec 5, 2014 2 min read

Instagram and the Evolution of Surfing Prosthetics

Solving the problem of the surfing foot.
Leslie Baehr
Oct 24, 2014 2 min read

Returning Sight to Millions of People Around the World With One App

Around 180 million people around the world are blind or have vision impairments–making portable, cheap eye exams incredibly important.
Rachel Nuwer
Oct 20, 2014 2 min read
A man wears a prosthetic robotic glove, and with that he holds an electric drill.

Better Than Biology–Underwater Hands and More

For the first time, divers will be able to pick up delicate undersea creatures or retrieve fragile objects from sunken wrecks.
David Hambling
Oct 16, 2014 3 min read
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