Researchers summarize key insights from the world’s first comprehensive investigation into how a pandemic started.

Add a new chapter to Beijing’s long record of COVID chicanery: Turns out a Chinese researcher actually mapped the novel virus’ genome by Dec. 28, 2019 — two weeks before Beijing shared that vital info ...

FORT BEND COUNTY, Texas (KTRK) -- More cases of the omicron variant of COVID-19 have been detected in the Houston area. Now, it has made its way to Fort Bend County. The new three cases were detected ...

The British government has announced a genome sequencing alliance made up of the country’s leading scientists and clinicians. The COVID-19 Genomics U.K. Consortium – COG-UK – comprised of the National ...

Editor’s Note: Sign up for CNN’s Meanwhile in China newsletter which explores what you need to know about the country’s rise and how it impacts the world. Hong Kong CNN — In the early days of 2020, as ...

In a recent study published in Lancet Microbe, researchers compare the potential of real-time reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) genotyping assays with whole-genome sequencing ...

The city Department of Health and Mental Hygiene has awarded Neochromosome Inc., a Long Island City-based biological engineering company, a nearly $57 million contract to perform whole genome ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- More cases of the omicron variant of COVID-19 have been detected in the Houston area. The new nine cases were detected at Houston Methodist Hospital. Houston Methodist ...