Foodborne illnesses are consistently underreported. Social media may help.

Scientists are using social media to track diseases and understand how people respond to them.

A group of epidemiologists and computer scientists built a system to mine various online sources for keywords suggesting disease outbreaks.

A single-cell map of C. elegans’s transcriptome during development finds cell lineages that start out genetically different and end up as cells of similar function and genetic profile.

This newly described behavior occurs spontaneously, but can be modulated by food availability, temperature, and the size of the chambers.

Conflicting results on the existence of new neurons in adults have researchers designing new ways to identify and count neuronal progenitors—and finally get to the bottom of neurogenesis.

Researchers are developing a variety of approaches for clearing neural tissue to get a better view of the brain’s circuitry.

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Hundreds of CRISPR patents have been granted around the world, and the number of applications continues to grow at a rapid pace.