Taught by Professor Sean Carroll of Johns Hopkins University, this course focuses on 12 pivotal equations that explain the workings of the universe—from the Pythagorean theorem to Einstein’s field equ...

The move, affecting about one-fifth of the National Science Foundation’s primary research budget, is the latest sign of how the White House is asserting more control over grants.

Sylvia Chou, former NIH program director, says “nobody’s OK” after massive disruptions to funding policies and infrastructure.

Many lawmakers, including some top Republicans, say the tactic is illegal.

We invite applications for a 2-year Postdoctoral Research Associate position in Nucleic Acid Computing and Molecular Programming in the laboratory of Dr Gamze Gursoy at the University of Cambridge. Th...

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A crackdown on American academia by the Trump administration has handed Canadian universities a rare opportunity to lure some top researchers north.

Existing notions of pangenome coordinates rely on hard-to-compute multiple sequence alignments. On the other hand, pangenome-wide exact unique matches (multi-MUMs) can be computed efficiently, and represent conserved stretches of columns in the underlying MSA. We introduce Shredtools, which uses mul …

We are excited to introduce the new NCBI Taxonomy, with updated tools and resources to improve how you browse taxonomic information and access NCBI data, including sequences, genomes, and other resour...

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WASHINGTON—A coalition of unions representing hundreds of thousands of public service and healthcare workers filed a lawsuit this week challenging the Department of Education’s new Reimagining and Imp...

With improvements in sequencing and assembly have come many high-quality telomere-to-telomere assemblies and reference pangenomes. However, the long-read sequencing recipes needed for high quality ass...

Federal officials said in court documents that they halted billions of dollars in funding for energy projects to states “based solely” on whether they backed President Trump in the 2024 election.

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