The new algorithm, described in this week's @PNASNews, can use ancient DNA to track the mobility of human populations in the past bit.ly/3ZdWkfW

Researchers unravel the genetic mechanisms of fingerprint formation, reports @TheScientistLLC bit.ly/3kiYrk8

A Las Vegas-based team examines in @JAMANetworkOpen the effect of visitors and tourists on wastewater-based surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 bit.ly/3It2ORA

Amidst its ongoing war with Ukraine, Russia has increased scientific collaborations with India and China, @Nature finds go.nature.com/3ZnIRm9

An analysis in @CurrentBiology of ancient Yersinia pestis shows that the plague-causing bacterium was introduced in waves into medieval Denmark bit.ly/3XZI5uf

Moderna shells out $400 million to pay the NIH for a government funded technique it used in its COVID-19 vaccine shot, reports @nytimes nyti.ms/3ZnggNL

. @Nature feature explores the state of research linking the brain to immune function, inflammation, and conditions ranging from heart disease to autoimmune conditions or cancer recovery go.nature.com/3IpQrpc

Researchers use single-nucleotide sequencing and mass spec to map alkylation-derived DNA adducts in a lung cancer cell line exposed to benzo(a)pyrene in @ACSCentSci bit.ly/3Zg0oMH

Stanford University biochemist Paul Berg, a recombinant DNA pioneer and Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry, is remembered in @nytimes nyti.ms/3Imno60

Researchers in @alzassociation journal linked obesity-related measurements such as body mass index and waist-to-hip ratio to increased or diminished expression of 21 Alzheimer's-associated genes bit.ly/41ngoyG

. @ScienceMagazine reports on a research team using induced pluripotent stem cells from adult bats to understand how bat species dodge diseases associated with the many viruses they carry bit.ly/41h8BlR

Researchers develop, validate, and test a haplotype-based artificial intelligence model for identifying SARS-CoV-2 variants, mutations, and variant mixtures in @JAMANetworkOpen bit.ly/3EvVnrt

A particularly deadly and dangerous version of monkeypox, or mpox, has been found in immunosuppressed individuals with advanced HIV, @guardian notes, prompting calls for increased testing bit.ly/3xMFOIa

. @voxdotcom looks at pandemic-related learning loss, children's mental health, and what comes next for children and teens who fell behind when schooling moved online bit.ly/3YRrZUG

Using nanopore sequencing, researchers profile the germline structural variant breakpoints, unbalanced SVs, and allelic heterogeneity in several breast cancer risk genes in the @ejhg_journal bit.ly/3ImeWnj

. @NPR's Goats and Soda profiles a nurse from rural Guatemala who is part of a local clinic and laboratory focused on active surveillance for emerging and established infectious diseases n.pr/3ZfhJWp

With data from hundreds of prior studies, researchers explore genetic ties between neurodevelopmental conditions and with disruptive, impulse control and conduct disorders in @NatureHumBehav bit.ly/3Z6hPzq

. @guardian says University of Oxford mathematical biology professor Dame Angela McLean will become UK's first female chief scientific advisor, starting in April bit.ly/3ErYgcX

Researchers in @PNASNews find two repeat-rich proteins that are sometimes expressed from the mammalian telomeric RNA TERRA, particularly when telomere problems are present bit.ly/3II7WCx

A previously HIV-positive patient treated with HIV-resistant donor stem cells has been free of the disease since 2018, without the need for antiretroviral therapy, @Nature reports go.nature.com/41ke5MO