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Olena Shmahalo / Quanta Magazine A Hidden Promise in the Language Cells Use to Communicate
Information and viruses spread through the body in surprisingly similar ways.
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Reuters Are Australians Redomesticating the Dingo?
A friendly group of the wild desert dogs could help tease apart domestication’s mysterious first steps.
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Andrea Mongia / Spectrum The Elusive Link Between Obesity and Autism
Obesity in people with autism appears to be different than in the general population. But why?
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Allison Filice / Quanta Magazine Females' Eggs May Actively Select Certain Sperm
New evidence challenges the oldest law of genetics.
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Jeff Sheridan / Quanta Magazine Building Codes for Bacterial Cities
Understanding the forces that shape infection-causing bacterial fortresses could reveal their subtle weaknesses.
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Catherine Losing / Mosaic The Uncertain Future of Genetic Testing
Bringing genetics into medicine leads to more accuracy, better diagnosis, and personalized treatment—but for some, gene testing has only resulted in unanswered questions.
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Daniel Hertzberg / Spectrum The Families That Launch Their Own Autism Studies
Historically, science has scorned single-subject trials, but parents’ at-home experiments with their kids may drive autism research forward.
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Leon Neal / Getty Can Maggots Heal Your Wounds?
Once a popular treatment for infection, the creepy-crawler is making a medical comeback.
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Mel Evans / AP The Challenge of Treating Anorexia in Adults
A new program aims to help the most long-suffering patients by addressing the neurobiology of the eating disorder.
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Pep Boatella / Spectrum Is There a Link Between Autism and Anorexia?
Researchers have begun to understand what the two conditions have in common.
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Laura Breiling / Mosaic Breast Milk for Sale
Is donating milk an act of altruism, like organ donation? Or are donors providing a good that they should be compensated for?
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Gretchen Ertl/Reuters The Fight for the Overdose Drug
The campaign to get Naloxone—the substance that can reverse the effects of an otherwise-lethal heroin overdose—into the hands of the police, families, and addicts
