crowd sourcing

Meet the family seeking to fund research into a rare disease that afflicts their two boys.

Watch the viral video that helped the family of a child with Sanfilippo syndrome raise more than $2 million.

A collaboration between Doctors Without Borders, the Red Cross, and other organizations aims to map developing cities across the globe to improve disease response efforts.

A campaign to build a direct-to-consumer genome sequencing service pulls the plug after two days of fundraising.

Gangs of nonexperts are outperforming science’s best efforts at automating biological problem solving.

Proposed regulations from the US Securities and Exchange Commission have the biotech industry tuning in to the roar of the crowd.  

A new Facebook game called Fraxinus hopes to crowdsource the solution to protecting the common ash tree from a devastating fungus.

Players of an online game that allows users to adjust how proteins are folded have solved a decade-long protein structure mystery.