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Next-generation sequencing diagnostics are already being used, and patients are ready.

Researchers find remarkably active bacteria in the Mariana Trench, where they live under pressure 1,000 times greater than at the surface.

Artist Mara G. Haseltine unveils her latest exhibition of science-inspired sculpture, a melancholy ode to marine plankton set to the music of Puccini.

Rock samples from deep within the Earth’s oceanic crust contain chemosynthetic microbial life.

A surgeon sues the Nobel Assembly for excluding him from last year’s prize awarded for regenerative science, but stem cell scientists are skeptical of his claims.

Researchers identify the target protein of a recently discovered human coronavirus, shedding light on infection and possible interspecies spread.

Research nears a biomarker for the contact-sport-associated disease that affects athletes long after they’ve retired.

Tailoring ethical oversight to participant-led research

Transcriptome studies reveal new insights about unusual animals whose genomes have not been sequenced.

A red alga appears to have adapted to extremely hot, acidic environments by collecting genes from bacteria and archaea.

Mice with human brain cells showed enhanced synaptic plasticity and learning, suggesting glia may be key to our cognitive prowess.
 

Two groups of researchers independently showed that high salt exposure stimulates cells implicated in multiple sclerosis and other autoimmune diseases.