Low levels of lymphocytes appeared to predict disease severity among a cohort of more than 300 COVID-19 patients, while viral genetic differences did not.
In Genome Biology this week: computational approach to determine phylogenetic relationships from single-cell data, metagenomic classification pipeline, and more.
Researchers at Mount Sinai, NYU School of Medicine, and Weill Cornell Medicine sequenced hundreds of SARS-CoV-2 genomes from NYC patients for phylogenetic analyses.
Researchers sequenced about 200 mumps cases from Massachusetts and elsewhere to understand how the virus spread locally and more broadly in 2016 and 2017.
Chinese researchers conducted a systematic comparison between the newly discovered coronavirus genome and SARS-like viruses that caused previous epidemics.
Nobel laureates and scientific societies urge NIH and the Department of Health and Human Services to revisit the recent decision to end funding for a coronavirus grant.
In Science this week: machine learning algorithm for faster Mendelian disorder diagnoses, gene linked to safe response to nitrogen-containing bisphosphonates, and more.
