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The proposed tool aims to inject clarity into the often-murky science of health risk factors, but some experts are skeptical that it’ll succeed.

Ancient stashes of animal bones, tools, and other artifacts are often dismissed as archaic garbage heaps, but the deposits provide glimpses of the cultural practices and environmental conditions of past Indigenous settlements.

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A new technique reveals cells’ precise locations and functions in the brain. Its developers have already used it to identify a previously unknown neuron type.

A new methodology combines existing techniques to reveal the specific function and location of multiple types of neurons at once.

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Listen to a musicologist blow through the oldest known shell horn.

Scientists see great value in catchy acronyms, so they get creative when it comes to naming new tools and techniques.

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.

The US patent office declares an interference between the intellectual property held by the Broad Institute and several patent applications filed by the University of California—opposite its previous ruling.

Meet the University of Toronto’s Yu Sun, whose work developing magnetic tweezers is featured in our Modus Operandi column.