If reviewers can’t reliably tell the difference between top grant proposals, why should they pretend they can? A new wave of funders is turning to lotteries to break the tie.

Un rapport de l’Inspection générale des affaires sociales (Igas) publié mardi 4 août révèle que la France connaît l’un des taux les plus élevés de mortalité infantile. Les professionnels de santé interrogés par « Mediapart » considèrent que cette étude vise à côté et ne propose rien de révolutionnaire.   

Structure prediction has reached RNA, where generating deep alignments is now the bottleneck. We developed Riboseek, a search and alignment tool for RNA and DNA that represents sequences as overlappin...

A pangenome reference overcomes the inherent limitation of any individual reference genome by integrating the variation present in a population. We present the Human Pangenome Reference Consortium’s (...

Genetics research frequently intersects with ethnicity, nationality, and race, making it uniquely vulnerable to misrepresentation. Yet, 25 years after the initial sequencing of the human genome, there...

TRIBUNE. Le maire de Béziers s’élève contre la décision de débaptiser les châteaux cathares symbole pour lui d’un mépris technocratique contre l’histoire occitane.

K -mer-based methods are widely used for sequence classification in metagenomics, pangenomics, and RNA-seq analysis, but existing tools face important limitations: they typically require a fixed k -me...

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Parents want accountability after study went disastrously wrong, Science and Retraction Watch investigation reveals

Whole-genome sequencing analysis of tumour and matched non-tumour host tissues of the brown bullhead catfish reveals a type of naturally occurring transmissible cancer.

ALT: Jemaine Clement: Well, I'm Not Surprised

Libérée de l’inéligibilité par la cour d’appel de Paris, la cheffe de file de l’extrême droite a déclaré sur TF1 être candidate à l’élection présidentielle. En France, la double reconnaissance de cul…