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 ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Biden ends US COVID emergency status

President Joe Biden on Monday officially ended the COVID national health emergency that for more than three years underpinned extraordinary efforts to provide care for a country where more than a million people died from ...

Obstetrics & gynaecology

Study reveals new insights into what caused the 1920 baby boom

A new study led by Oxford University's Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science has found that the 1918 influenza pandemic had a much longer negative effect on fertility than previously thought. The results, published this ...

Inflammatory disorders

Childhood asthma declines during COVID-19 pandemic

Half as many children in the United States were diagnosed with asthma in the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic compared to previous years, and Rutgers researchers think fewer colds may be part of the reason.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Doctor who helped vanquish smallpox assesses COVID response

In 1970s India, the physician and epidemiologist Larry Brilliant played an important role in efforts that eradicated smallpox caused by the deadliest form of the virus, variola major. Since then, he has continued his public ...

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