Author summary Cancer cells often evolve resistance to treatments during therapy by acquiring specific mutations, leading to eventual relapse and treatment failure. While using multiple treatments in ...

U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. asked his new CDC director to remove a reference to two Pennsylvania deaths from the agency’s online measles tally after he questioned whether the disease c...

House Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03) has learned that officials at the Department of Defense (DoD) are working to divert billions of dollars from the National Institute...

Abstract. The prominence of positive selection, in which beneficial mutations are favored by natural selection and rapidly increase in frequency, is a subj

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Even with federal grants largely restored, scientists say the Trump administration is still preventing those funds from reaching them. The consequences, they say, are already becoming clear.

The Schrider Lab at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is hiring a postdoc in population genetics and/or phylogenetics. The successful candidate will help design and carry out projects re...

Probabilistic models such as the sequentially Markovian coalescent have long provided a powerful framework for population genetic inference, enabli...

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Malaria has caused over 15.7 million deaths in the 21st century and was responsible for ∼600 thousand deaths globally in 2023 alone. Although many effective antimalarial drugs have been developed and ...

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Simulation-based inference methods are increasingly being used in population genetics due to their flexibility and ability to be applied in settings where likelihood-based methods are intractable. Per...

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Another Friday night massacre, but this time it's not just an essential federal public health agency that will die

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Unlike most nonimmigrant classifications, which are admitted for a fixed time period, aliens in the F (academic student), J (exchange visitor), and most I (representatives of foreign information media...

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