For the first time, researchers visualize histone deacetylase in the brains of healthy volunteers.

Researchers efficiently clear mice of the parasites that cause leishmaniasis, Chagas disease, and sleeping sickness by inhibiting the parasites’ kinetoplastid proteasomes.

Great frigatebirds can sleep while flying, researchers report.

More-precise CRISPR; progress toward a Zika vaccine; NIH reconsiders human-animal chimera research funding; large sample size powers genetics study on depression

Joshua Gordon of Columbia University Medical Center will lead the National Institute of Mental Health.

By ditching traditional agar-based media, two biochemists captured iconic images of Myxococcus in 1982.

Anti-Zika potential of already-approved drugs; problems with animal studies; recognizing the contributions of grad students and postdocs

Minding sleep spindles; targeting tau with immunotherapy; cloned sheep age normally; pesticide exposure impairs honeybee fertility; Zika updates

Organoids versus animal models; mapping the human cortex; how hyperglycemia affects the brain; delivering drugs to tumors with engineered bacteria; neurons compete for memory space 

Regenerating retinal nerves in mice; soil inoculation speeds up land restoration; gut microbes and stroke recovery in mice; public gene-editing meeting; Zika updates

Excavating existing topsoil and adding donor soil, researchers revitalized degraded farmland in the span of six years.

Mitochondrial, nuclear DNA mismatch benefits; oil gland may assist swimming swordfish; buggy software and fMRI results; Zika updates; is MIMIVIRE like CRISPR?