Tue, Nov 20 2018

We used a deeply sequenced dataset of 910 individuals, all of African descent, to construct a set of DNA sequences that is present in these individuals but missing from the reference human genome. We aligned 1.19 trillion reads from the 910…

Known as the GRCh38 reference genome, it is periodically updated with DNA sequences from other individuals, but in a new analysis, Johns Hopkins scientists now say that the collective genomes of 910 people of African descent have a large chunk…

It is 2018, and the director of the National Science Foundation, France Córdova, is tired of learning that male scientists whose research she support s with public funds have sexually harassed their female students, staff and colleagues. At…

Over the last few years, an international team of almost 200 psychologists have been trying to repeat a set of previously published experiments from their field, to see if they can get the same results. Despite their best efforts, the project…

White House ethics officials learned of Trump's repeated use of personal email when reviewing emails gathered last fall by five Cabinet agencies to respond to a public records lawsuit. That review revealed that throughout much of 2017, she often…