A new tool called CRISPR is letting scientists cut and snip DNA in better ways, and has led to a slew of new research that touches on many human diseases. By Tracy Staedter.

Scientists genetically modify fungus using poison from spiders and scorpions to reduce population of the disease-carrying insects. By Stephen Chen.

Growers destroy plants after biologist spots forgotten flowers. By By Kelly Servick. (May. 24, 2017)

The Korean War has been called “America’s forgotten war.” By Thomas Powell.

“The long-term question is, ‘Will somebody learn something about the brain that will be of use later?’” he says. “And the answer is, ‘Of course.’” By Sarah Scoles.

More than 80 years later, families of men in the notorious Tuskegee syphilis study detail a legacy of suffering, and seek healing. (May 10, 2017)

When researchers delivered electrical stimulation stimulation to the brain at very specific times, the participants’ memory improved. By Agata Blaszczak-Boxe.

As an organic chemist, I am willing to deal with the occasional bang or kapow in the lab, as long as things don’t get too out of hand… By Derek Lowe. (Sept. 27, 2016)

South Dakota’s use of forced catheterization. By Mark Walker.

Effort to grow organs stirs debate over ethics of human-animal chimeras. By Antonio Regalado.

The story of how Doris Stauffer became part of a military experiment against family wish casts light on a growing but unregulated industry: human body brokers. By John Shiffman.

Lock them in. Bill their insurer. Kick them out. How scores of employees and patients say America’s largest psychiatric chain turns patients into profits. By Rosalind Adams.

Post-traumatic stress disorder and related disorders are difficult to beat, because our fears can resurface. Could a transplant of young brain cells help? By Alice Klein. [Warning: Animal cruelty]

Scientists who are working on bioengineering techniques must realize that their work speculates a future where their breakthroughs will be embraced by society. By Jason Koebler.

Controversial clinical trial would have tried to revive brain-dead accident victims. By Priyanka PullaNov.

“Young Blood for Old Brains” lecture summarizes efforts to use the blood of young people to cure neurological diseases in the elderly. By Becky Ferreira.

It might come down to the same network theory that rules computer science and economics. (Oct. 19, 2016)

Dozens, if not hundreds, of criminal convictions in Ohio could be in jeopardy because a longtime forensic scientist at the state crime lab now stands accused of slanting evidence to help cops and prosecutors build their cases. By Mike Wagner, Jill Riepenhoff, Lucas Sullivan and Earl Rinehart.

Charles Waterton was a pioneer of conservation. He was also extremely nutty, in ways that suggest he may have over-identified with his animal subjects. By Christine Ro.

Plano [Texas] surgeon Christopher Duntsch left a trail of bodies. The shocking story of a madman with a scalpel. By Matt Goodman.