The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has ravaged the globe for more than a year, with an increasing emergence of new variants of concern that stand to undermine current measures aimed at ...

In a recent study published in Nature Biotechnology, researchers developed a whole-genome sequencing (WGS) pipeline based on nanopore technology for the rapid identification of genetic variants. WGS ...

(CNN) — A highly mutated new variant of the virus that causes Covid-19 has countries on alert as scientists scramble to understand how far it has spread and how well our immunity will defend against ...

Using STING-seq, short for systematic targeting and inhibition of noncoding GWAS loci with single cell sequencing, Sanjana and his team identified promising sequence variants linked to various ...

BioNTech announced it had partnered with InstaDeep to create an algorithm to quickly flag potential high-risk COVID-19 variants. BioNTech conducted an 11-month study that showed its Early Warning ...

Sharon Peacock receives funding from the Wellcome, Department of Health and Social Care, and UKRI. A coronavirus variant called B1525 has become one of the most recent additions to the global variant ...