Annual maps of population densities of brown bears, grey wolves, and wolverines in Scandinavia from 2012 to 2018. Credit: Staffan Widstrand Photography (bear); Kjetil Kolbjørnsrud…
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While in Paris in the 1990s, Georgie briefly watched a professional photographer taking pictures of kids playing in a small park near Les Halles and…
After experiencing depression, Sami Smith found an effective treatment with the help of her psychiatrist and the GeneSight test, a genetic test that can help…
A large international consortium led by scientists at Uppsala University and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard has sequenced the genome of 130 mammals…
Mutation is not expected to interfere with effectiveness of vaccines under development. A new study published in Science confirms that SARS-CoV-2 has mutated in a…
New epidemic diseases have an evolutionary advantage if they are of “intermediate” severity, research shows. Scientists tested the theory that pathogens (disease-causing organisms) that inflict…
[embedded content]An artist’s interpretation of the creation of two cell atlases that track gene expression and chromatin accessibility during the development of human cell types…
A large international consortium led by scientists at Uppsala University and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard has sequenced the genome of 130 mammals…
Researchers have discovered a new “hidden” gene in SARS-CoV-2 — the virus that causes COVID-19 — that may have contributed to its unique biology and…
A microfluidic chip with individual droplets shown in different colors. Each droplet contains material from single cells and delivers it for single cell omics analyses.…
New findings published in PLOS Biology use “big data” approach. Results from a new Cleveland Clinic-led study suggest that melatonin, a hormone that regulates the…
The series of illustrations on this page are a schematic illustrating three ways that standard samples from COVID-19 clinical trials can be repurposed to assess…
Immuneering develops drugs to bind to disease pathways and silence them. Credit: Immuneering Immuneering uses bioinformatics to develop new medicines while also helping large pharmaceutical…
Temple researchers have identified the first genome to transmit the coronavirus. In the field of molecular epidemiology, the worldwide scientific community has been sleuthing to…
Argonne computational resources supported the largest comprehensive analysis of COVID-19 genome sequences in the U.S. and helped corroborate growing evidence of a protein mutation. Before…
Scientists have used genome sequencing to reveal the extent to which a drug-resistant gastrointestinal bacterium can spread within a hospital, highlighting the challenge hospitals face…
Histology image of a teratoma. Credit: Daniella McDonald Finding just the right model to study human development — from the early embryonic stage onward —…
Cruciviruses are a hybrid form containing both RNA and DNA genomic material. Here, a single-stranded DNA virus (yellow) containing a Rep protein sequence, which directs…
The number of virus strains present in each zip code in Houston during the second wave of COVID-19 cases in summer 2020. Number of strains…
Pituitary Puzzle Gets a New Piece: Insights Into Century-Old Controversy Revise Evolutionary History
View of the larval zebrafish face shows a type of endoderm cell in red and all other cell types in white. Fabian, Crump, and colleagues…