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Medical historian Richard Barnett joins WIRED to answer the internet’s burning questions about medical history.

Bexorg, a Connecticut medical startup, is using disembodied human brains in research targeting neurodegenerative diseases.

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Thanks to new technologies like artificial intelligence, scientists are increasingly freed from the constraints of the laboratory. It raises questions about how much humans should outsource to robots.