They join a group of 213 scientists, scholars, writers, artists, and other leaders—including former President Barack Obama, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, and Baltimore-born writer Ta-Nehisi ...

During cold and flu season, it can be difficult to determine whether an illness is caused by bacteria or by a virus. Computational biologist Steven Salzberg—a Johns Hopkins Bloomberg Distinguished ...

It was the first thought to cross the mind of computational biologist Steven Salzberg after reading about a recent Boston University study that combined strains of the virus that causes COVID-19, ...

For the past 17 years, most scientists around the globe have used the nucleic acid sequence—an assembly of DNA information, or genome—drawn primarily from a single individual as a kind of baseline ...

Social media users pointed to a now-updated Forbes Health headline that was interpreted as meaning that the COVID-19 vaccine changes DNA. The author, Steven Salzberg, said he changed the headline for ...

Researchers from Johns Hopkins University; the University of California, Davis; and the Save the Redwoods League have partnered for an ambitious plan to fully sequence the coast redwood and giant ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Steven Salzberg is a Professor who writes about science, good and bad The “lab leak” hypothesis about the origin of Covid-19 has ...

Scientists have successfully used two separate gene technologies to assemble the most complete genome sequence to date of Triticum aestivum, the most common cultivated species of wheat used to make ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Steven Salzberg is a Professor who writes about science, good and bad We're in the midst of an extinction crisis. Just two months ...

A recent study shows three distinct, independently evolving lineages of Avian Flu. The broad dispersal of the different forms of the virus throughout several different countries over a relatively ...