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A long-tailed weasel in Yellowstone National Park. George Sanker/NPL/Minden Pictures

Weasels Are Built for the Hunt

By NATALIE ANGIER

Members of the mustelid family, including badgers, ferrets and otters, have evolved into remarkable predators.

Dr. Alexis LaPietra used a non-opioid trigger point injection to treat Fausto Arce's muscle spasm, which was so painful he couldn't turn his head.

Mark Makela for The New York Times

An E.R. Kicks the Habit of Opioids for Pain

By JAN HOFFMAN

Instead of opioids, the emergency room at St. Joseph's Regional Medical Center in Paterson, N.J. treats most pain patients with alternatives like laughing gas, trigger-point injections and even a therapy harp.

Dawnie Wolfe Steadman, right, director of the University of Tennessee's Forensic Anthropology Center, widely known as the Body Farm. Research there found that animals make a poor basis for comparison in determining a human being's time of death.

Mike Belleme for The New York Times

What Dead Pigs Can't Teach Us About 'C.S.I.'

By ERICA GOODE

Forensic experts have long used decomposing pigs as proxies for humans in estimating when someone died. But a study found pigs make poor stand-ins.

The zoologist Samuel K. Wasser at the University of Washington.

Ruth Fremson/The New York Times

A Conversation With

Samuel K. Wasser, a Scientific Detective Tailing Poachers

By CLAUDIA DREIFUS

A conservation biologist discusses his forensic analysis using DNA to determine the origins of seized elephant ivory.

After surgical and hormonal treatment, George Jorgensen, a Bronx-born G.I., became Christine Jorgensen, a nightclub entertainer and advocate for transsexual rights.

Fred Morgan/NY Daily News Archive, via Getty Images

Personal Health

Being Transgender as a Fact of Nature

By JANE E. BRODY

The current bathroom controversy reflects prejudice and misinformation about people who identify as transgender.

Female mosquitoes that have been altered as part of a gene drive experiment.

Gene Editing to Alter Whole Species Gets Limited Backing

By AMY HARMON

A technique to change or eliminate entire populations of organisms could be used against virus-carrying mosquitoes. It could also have unintended consequences.

White-footed mice carry the pathogen that causes Lyme disease. An M.I.T. scientist is proposing to create mice that are genetically engineered to break the cycle of transmission.

Fighting Lyme Disease in the Genes of Nantucket's Mice

By AMY HARMON

Residents there heard a proposal Monday from an M.I.T. scientist to use genetically engineered mice to stop the spread of the tick-borne disease.

Remains dating to around 700,000 years ago discovered on the island of Flores.

New Fossils Strengthen Case for 'Hobbit' Species

By CARL ZIMMER

Teeth, a piece of jaw and tools dating to 700,000 years ago support the idea that ancestors of Homo floresiensis arrived in Indonesia about a million years ago.