High-dimensional data are visualized through representation on tree structures.

Initial genomes from May 2026 Bundibugyo Virus Disease Outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda, reveal a new spillover event Context On 15 May 2026, the Ministry of Public Health, ...

Nancy Cox, a CDC veteran who for decades was a global leader in influenza research, has died at 77.

EMBL and its community are deeply saddened by the death of Peer Bork, the organisation’s Interim Director General. 

Critics say “autocratic” behavior by GISAID could hamper response to a future pandemic

Boris Shraiman is awarded the American Physical Society’s Max Delbrück Prize in Biological Physics.

The Centre for Pathogen Bioinformatics (CPB) is a unit of SIB which offers expertise and services in pathogen bioinformatics, computational molecular epidemiology and related multi-site project manage...

One of the most powerful approaches for identifying the mechanisms underlying complex biological phenomena is not just to measure bulk populations, or even take single-cell snapshots, but to directly ...

Background The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is currently facing concurrent outbreaks including mpox, cholera and malaria (1-4). The Ministry of Public Health, DRC has declared the 16th Ebola...

LexicMap uses a fixed set of probes to efficiently query gene sequences for fast and low-memory alignment.

Background The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is currently facing concurrent outbreaks including mpox, cholera and malaria (1-4). The Ministry of Public Health, DRC has declared the 16th Ebola...

Cells often navigate through confined spaces. Now it is shown that cells retain a mechanical memory of previous confinement events, which makes them more efficient at migrating through narrow microenv...

Single-cell omics methods promise to revolutionize our understanding of gene regulatory processes during cell differentiation, but analysis of such data continues to pose a major challenge. Apart from...

Editorial: As the White House retools US imperialism with import duties, others must resist dependency – deepening regional ties and reducing exposure to chokepoints

The Biozentrum encourages talented, ambitious and highly motivated young scientists from all over the world to apply for the prestigious and sought after fellowships offered by the Biozentrum Basel In...

Open Letter from the Scientific Community to SRF Dear Management of SRG, Dear Executive Board of SRF, Dear Media and Science Policy Makers, We are deeply concerned about SRF’s plans to make significan...

Amid a shakeup in U.S. science, researchers are expressing alarm over the integrity of key genetic databases overseen by the NIH.

SRF streicht Formate in den Bereichen Kultur und Wissenschaft. Das wird auch der Standort in Basel zu spüren bekommen. Bei Politiker*innen und in der Bajour-Community lösen die jüngst angekündigten Ma...

NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates NOT-OD-25-068. OD