Accurately predicting complex agronomic traits remains a major bottleneck in crop breeding. This study demonstrates how ...

Breakthroughs in scientific research are not always made in experienced laboratories and research teams. Occasionally, they ...

This study presents SynaptoGen, a differentiable extension of connectome models that links gene expression, protein-protein interaction probabilities, synaptic multiplicity, and synaptic weights, and ...

We use heuristics to solve computationally difficult problems where optimal solutions are too expensive to deploy, hard to manage, or otherwise inefficient. Our prior work, MetaOpt, shows many of the ...

LEWISBURG — Valley residents hoping to discover genetic factors that impact health outcomes can do so at WellSpan Evangelical Community Hospital. WellSpan’s Gene Health Project, in partnership with ...

TL;DR: Although often labeled a "dark web" associated with criminal activity and illicit marketplaces, Tor is an invaluable tool for protecting online privacy. Developers are now working to make the ...

The Princess Margaret Cancer Centre says it will be running a genomic study on up to 100,000 people in Ontario over the next five years, screening for genetic conditions that increase the risk of ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...

More than 800 U.S. TikTok users shared their data with The Washington Post. We used it to find out why some people become power users, spending hours per day scrolling. Each circle in the chart ...

When an outbreak of an infectious disease begins to spread, policymakers face an unenviable challenge. They must decide when to intervene and how forcefully, knowing that their choices carry both ...

Several businesses and nonprofits have recently opened or will soon open medical-related facilities in south-central Pennsylvania. Our list below includes behavioral services offices, a genetic ...

Biology is in the middle of a transformation. Over the past five years new sequencing techniques have made it much easier and cheaper to read long strands of dna, allowing scientists to record gapless ...