Genetics

MAPLE: A phylogenetic tool for pandemic-scale genome data

With the huge abundance of genomic data generated from life science experiments, processing large datasets remains a challenge in the field of bioinformatics. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the limited capabilities of existing ...

Health

Excess death gap widens between US and Europe

A new analysis shows that, compared to similarly high-income European countries, the U.S. continues to have substantially higher death rates at all but the oldest ages, resulting in more "excess deaths," and this gap widened ...

Diabetes

SARS-CoV-2 unlikely to cause type 1 diabetes

More children and adolescents than usual developed type 1 diabetes in Finland in the first 18 months of the coronavirus pandemic. According to a recently completed study, the cause was not the novel coronavirus, but altered ...

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