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Genomic Study Highlights Summer Travel Role in SARS-CoV-2 Variant Spread in Europe
Investigators found that a strain that first appeared in Spain last spring was introduced to additional European locations hundreds of times with the help of summer travel.
Genomic, Epidemiological Analysis Traces SARS-CoV-2 P.1 Lineage Emergence in Brazil
A group led by University of São Paulo researchers timed the lineage's emergence to mid-November and examined its transmissibility and immune evasion.
Million-Year-Old Mammoths Sequenced, Giving Insight into Evolution
One of the ancient mammoths sequenced belongs to a previously unknown lineage that hybridized with woolly mammoths to give rise to Columbian mammoths.
Lung Cancer Metastasis Study Relies on CRISPR-Based Method to Track Single-Cell Lineages
Researchers traced the development of thousands of engineered human lung cancer cells within a mouse model of disease to examine metastasis.
SARS-CoV-2 Introduced Into UK More Than 1,000 Times Early in Pandemic, Study Finds
The national lockdown reduced the genetic diversity of the SARS-CoV-2 lineages in the UK, the researchers additionally reported.