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Here's Bernie Sanders Ballin' Like A Pro As He Won New Hampshire
Nothing but net (worth). Here's what Bernie Sanders was doing as polls closed in New Hampshire and he delivered a crushing defeat to Hillary Clinton... BALLIN' 🏀🏀 NBC He's a fan of all kinds of...
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There's An Information Gap In A Lot Of Fertility Apps
Sergiy Tryapitsyn / Getty Images Ellie experienced severe mood swings, weight gain, and spotting while taking birth control pills. Then she tried an IUD until it fell out one painful day. So for the...
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Jennifer Doudna Has Won A CRISPR Gene-Editing Patent
Broad Institute A biotech startup has been issued a patent that involves CRISPR, the breakthrough gene-editing method that has sparked a nearly unprecedented intellectual property feud between some of...
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This Startup Wants To Help Keep Your Parents Out Of The Hospital
HomeHero HomeHero, along with several other new startups, aims to help a demographic that’s often ignored in the relentlessly young-skewing Silicon Valley: aging baby boomers. These companies send...
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People Are Going To Prison Thanks To DNA Software — But How It Works Is Secret
Illustration by BuzzFeed News Two days after Christmas 1977, police found Shelley H. dead in her apartment in Long Beach, California. The 17-year-old had been sexually assaulted and strangled: She was...
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Why It's A Good Thing That A Machine Just Beat A Human At Go
Lee Sedol shakes hands with Demis Hassabis, CEO of DeepMind, after finishing the final match in Seoul. Jeon Heon-Kyun / Getty Images For a moment, it seemed like the machine might lose, again. Early...
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Apple Wants The iPhone To Record Every Aspect Of Your Health
Justin Sullivan / Getty Images With every new device and feature, Apple further builds out its ecosystem in ways meant to make sure you never have to, or want to, leave the confines of iOS. Now, it’s...
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Lumosity's Stumble Reveals How We Think About Thinking
The ads were pervasive, popping up on CNN, Fox News, NPR, and Google searches. And they were persuasive: Playing Lumosity games would do your brain good.“Can you remember the name of that song you...
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This Woman Says Her 2-Year-Old Died Because Of A False DNA Test
Amy Williams During the peaceful moments of Christian Millare’s short life, he’d curl up next to his mother, Amy Williams, as she read Dr. Seuss books out loud. She rocked him to sleep to the songs of...
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A Mom Says Her Toddler Died Because Of A False DNA Test
Amy Williams believes her son didn’t have to die from a rare genetic condition. Now, she’s suing one of the world’s largest laboratories. Amy Williams is a 31-year-old living in Myrtle Beach, South...
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Peter Thiel-Backed DNA-Testing Startup Counsyl Cuts Staff
Counsyl's founders. Counsyl If you want to get your DNA tested, there’s no shortage of companies happy to take your (or your insurer’s) money and tell you about everything from your ancestry to your...
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This Man’s Fitbit Data Got Him The Medical Care He Needed
The Fitbit Surge JC Olivera / Getty Images On Jan. 5, a man checked into a hospital’s emergency room in Camden, New Jersey. Because his heart was beating irregularly, doctors suspected he had atrial...
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You Can Now Ask Facebook Messenger About That Weird Rash
HealthTap Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced Tuesday that Messenger was the fastest-growing app in the U.S. in 2015. Indeed, in the last year or so, Facebook has worked hard to make Messenger an...
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The First-Ever 360-Degree Video Surgery Is Happening On Thursday
Dr. Shafi Ahmed Medical Realities Over the course of two hours or so on Thursday, Dr. Shafi Ahmed will perform a more-or-less routine surgery on a man in his seventies with colon cancer. The...
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This Pill Delivery Startup Is Going To War With An Industry Giant
PillPack Between Uber taking on taxi cabs and Airbnb seeking to disrupt the hospitality industry, disputes between startups and entrenched corporations are exceedingly common these days. Depending on...
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Why Eating Disorders Are So Hard For Instagram And Tumblr To Combat
Before she entered treatment for anorexia in October 2013, Hannah Coombs spent hours diving down what felt like a “rabbit hole” on Instagram: bony torsos and skeletal limbs, all punctuated by comments...
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A Long Life Is Genetically Different From A Healthy One
Paulette Olivier and Simone Thiot, at age 104, are believed to be the oldest twins in the world. Guillaume Souvant / AFP / Getty Images They’ve made it far in life, 80 years and counting. Yet they’re...
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Apple Kicks Off Next Big iPhone Health Push With CareKit Launch
Dolgachov / Getty Images Over the last two years, Apple has sought to turn the iPhone and the Apple Watch into health-tracking devices through which people track and record some of their most...
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This Delivery Startup Says It's Like Whole Foods Meets Costco
Thrive Market It’s been a rough few months for tech-enabled delivery startups. Just ask Instacart, which recently cut pay for contract drivers in several cities and raised its prices. Or DoorDash,...
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Eye Doctors Want To Shut Down This Online Vision Exam Startup
Opternative The eyeglass prescription process is the latest health care service to be disrupted — and now optometrists are waging an all-out war against a startup that lets people do vision tests...
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