Watch a subscriber-only conversation with Sneha Goenka, who designed the computations behind the world’s fastest whole-genome sequencing method.

Danish public health officials have reported two outbreaks and a general increase in Campylobacter cases. Since July, two outbreaks of Campylobacter ...

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Accused Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann will face one trial for all of the murder charges, a judge ruled.

Harvard Medical School affiliated researchers recently revealed a new technique to help doctors detect head and neck cancers ...

Natural systems such as CRISPR-associated transposons (CASTs) offer a targetable, one-step way to edit genomes.

Gilgo Beach murder suspect Rex Heuermann will face one trial for all seven murder charges he’s facing, Judge Timothy Mazzei ruled on Tuesday, September 23. Mazzei made the decision after Heuermann’s ...

Tiny bioreactors, called nanocultures, are opening up new possibilities for microbiome research, especially in harsh and dynamic environments.

Last summer, high heat and harsh sun scorched canola's yellow flowers and ruined their pollen, knocking down yields across Western Canada. This summer, smoke from nearby wildfires shrouded the July ...

This valuable study analyzes aging-related chromatin changes through the lens of intra-chromosomal gene correlation length, which is a novel computational metric that captures spatial correlations in ...