Author and researcher Peter Hotez explains the campaign to combat neglected tropical diseases.

Meet Joey Ramp, a University of Illinois neuroscience student who is fighting to continue her education with her service dog by her side.

University of California, San Diego, graduate student Caleb Christianson explains the development of his eel-inspired robot.

See amputee Amanda Kitts manipulate objects using nervous impulses to control an early prototype of her advanced artificial limb.

Profilee Angela Dulhunty describes her research on the structure and function of proteins that make up skeletal and cardiac muscles.

The Scientist speaks with a researcher who is also the mayor of a coastal town in the path of the storm.

Watch profilee Israel Liberzon of the University of Michigan discuss his work trying to piece together the neurological routes of post-traumatic stress disorder.

See the American Museum of Natural History curator Mark Sidall explain his fascination with leeches, which he and other scientists are using to infer biodiversity in some far-flung places.

Blast off into orbit, where researchers on the International Space Station are growing plants in systems that may one day sustain astronauts travelling far across the solar system and beyond.

Ali Guthy, the daughter of cosmetics entrepreneur Victoria Jackson, discusses NMO, the rare autoimmune disease she suffers from.