The Scan

According to NPR, there were irregularities in how the contract to collect COVID-19 data was awarded to TeleTracking Technologies.

New Scientist reports that researchers have brought back microbes that may have been dormant under the ocean floor for millions of years.

New studies suggest levels of a blood protein that may reflect whether someone has Alzheimer's disease.

According to Buzzfeed News, hackers have targeted users of two genetic genealogy sites.

The New York Times looks into the career of the doctor who founded Surgisphere, the company whose database was used in two now-retracted COVID-19 studies.

NPR reports Moderna has begun Phase III testing of its candidate SARS-CoV-2 vaccine.

At Science, Shi Zhengli from the Wuhan Institute of Virology denies any link to the emergence of SARS-CoV-2.

Grist reports that a University of California, Davis, team has edited the genome of a calf so that he'll be more likely to produce male offspring.

Researchers have sequenced the genome of an aphid-like insect that destroyed French vineyards in the 19th century, the Guardian reports.

A European Union budget deal provides less funding than expected for its Horizon Europe research program, according to Science.

Wired reports on an effort to use a loop-mediated isothermal amplification-based, or LAMP, test to screen for COVID-19 in a Wisconsin city.

The All of Us research program is investigating racial disparities associated with the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the Los Angeles Times.