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A simple methodological error meant that for years researchers considered drinking moderate amounts of alcohol to be healthy.

Every living cell must interpret its genetic code—a sequence of chemical letters that governs countless cellular functions. A new study by researchers from the Center for Theoretical Biological ...

More than a year ago, computational scientists at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory published a study ...

In a pair of papers submitted June 17 at arXiv.org, researchers generated conditions called “magic states,” crucial components of quantum computations. And those magic states were high-quality enough ...

Defense lawyers have called shaken baby syndrome, or abusive head trauma, junk science. But doctors say shaking a baby is dangerous.

A team of researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory has published a new study in the Royal Society of Chemistry’s ...

We present a modified GRCh38 reference that corrects errors while maintaining the same coordinates allowing us to leverage the extensive existing annotations of GRCh38, along with an efficient ...

Thus, elevated sequencing errors at non-B DNA motifs should be considered in low-read-depth studies (single-cell, ancient DNA, and pooled-sample population sequencing) and when scoring rare variants.