This article introduces the field of bioinformatics and its importance as a cornerstone of biological research, as well as ...

We have examined in Mexican wolves and related canids the amount of genetic variation for a class II gene in the major histocompatibility complex (MHC), thought to be part of the most important ...

It’s a little after 6:30 on a brisk July morning in a stone hut high in the Italian Alps. A gently hissing wood fire is ...

Genomes are key to unlocking life's evolutionary history. The presence and absence of certain genetic sequences and mutations ...

When COVID-19 arrived, researchers tried to build evolutionary family trees—known as phylogenetic trees—of the virus. These ...

OpenAI wants to spend more than $1 trillion on its quest to build superintelligent AI, according to the Financial Times. The figure dwarfs the roughly $13 billion it takes in each year, so the startup ...

For ten years running, computer scientist Alexandros Stamatakis from the Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS) ...

It was early January 2025 when a faint light spot was observed at the Mt. Lemmon Observatory in Arizona. Follow-up observations revealed that the object was a comet visiting from the outer edge of the ...

Jamie Dimon is right to be alarmed about our national-security vulnerabilities, especially an overreliance on China and India for generic prescription drugs (“Investments for National Security,” op-ed ...

With almost all of its citizens’ genes already sequenced in a national database, it’s the test case for an ambitious—and, to ...