For the next two weeks, if you want news about the World Health Organization (WHO), you may have to consult sources other than The New York Times. According to an Email I just received from the WHO, the organization has suspended the Times from its media distribution list for two weeks after the newspaper broke an embargo on a story on measles deaths. (They've dropped sharply, it turns out.)... Click to continue

I just got a press release that made me go ''huh?'' That's ''huh,'' question mark. Not ''huh!'', or ''huh,'' exclamation point -- which is what I like from press releases. If you don't see what I mean, answer me this: Does dandruff have a genome?

According to the press release, from Procter & Gamble, it does. So I opened the Email to find out about this sequencing feat. It turns out, as you may have guessed, that scientists at Procter and Gamble Beauty had sequenced the genome of Malassezia... Click to continue