Identification of new archaea species elucidates the domain’s unique  biology and sheds light on its relationship to eukaryotes.

Clinical analyses of patients’ gene sequences are helping to provide answers where none were available before.

Government incentives, advances in technology, and an army of patient advocates have spun a successful market—but abuses of the system and exorbitant prices could cause a backlash.

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

When the O’Neills learned that their daughter had Sanfilippo syndrome, a devastating rare disease, they created a GoFundMe campaign that raised $2 million in less than a year.

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.

Two decades after a successful crowdfunding campaign, some clinical trial patients have seen improvements—but there’s still no approved treatment for the disease.

Simultaneous stroking of one's real hand and a fake limb can lead that person to embody the fake on as their own.