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Researchers at the Rare Genomics Institute look at how families finance the cost of diagnostic exome sequencing.

Though Calliope Joy’s disease is too far progressed to be treatable, her parents have helped other children with metachromatic leukodystrophy get access to an experimental therapy.

Crowdfunding can power investigations into diseases that would otherwise receive little attention.

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.

Locals helped researchers find the extremely rare boa.

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With scientific funding on shaky ground, big-dollar competitions offer a new way for life-science innovators to bring their ideas to fruition.

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

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