EditorialA forensic scientist prepares a sample prior to forensic grade genome sequencing at Othram’s lab in The Woodlands, Texas, on March 24, 2022. (Michael Stravato/The New York Times)
EditorialSarah Hernandez begins preparing samples for PCR testing and sequencing in a biosafety cabinet in the Waggoner Laboratory at Emory University in Atlanta on Feb. 23, 2022. (Johnathon Kelso/The New York Times)
EditorialTulio de Oliveira, director of the KwaZulu-Natal Research and Innovation Sequencing Platform, in his lab at the Nelson Mandela School of Medicine in Durban, South Africa, Jan. 8, 2021. (Joao Silva/The New York Times)
EditorialTulio de Oliveira, the principal investigator of the KwaZulu-Natal Research Innovation and Sequencing Platform, in Durban, South Africa, Nov. 16, 2021. (Joao Silva/The New York Times)
EditorialResearchers sort coronavirus test samples for genetic sequencing at Duke University in Durham, N.C., Feb. 3, 2021. (Pete Kiehart/The New York Times)
EditorialTulio de Oliveira, director of the KwaZulu-Natal Research and Innovation Sequencing Platform, in his lab at the Nelson Mandela School of Medicine in Durban, South Africa, Jan. 8, 2021. (Joao Silva/The New York Times)
EditorialTulio de Oliveira, director of the KwaZulu-Natal Research and Innovation Sequencing Platform, in his lab at the Nelson Mandela School of Medicine in Durban, South Africa, Jan. 8, 2021. (Joao Silva/The New York Times)
EditorialA cluster of gene-sequencing machines at the synthetic biology labs of Ginkgo Bioworks in Boston, Sept. 3, 2021. (Simon Simard/The New York Times)
EditorialHudsonAlpha, a genome sequencing lab in Huntsville, Ala., that has worked on more than 1,000 forensic genealogy cases. (Wes Frazer/The New York Times)
EditorialLab technician Angelica Garces at the Sequencing and Genomic Technologies Shared Resource at Duke University in Durham, N.C., works with positive coronavirus samples on Feb. 3, 2021. (Pete Kiehart/The New York Times)
EditorialLab technicians Angelica Garces, left, and Sarah Clarke, right, prepared to load human RNA samples into a sequencing machine at Duke University in Durham, N.C. (Pete Kiehart/The New York Times)
EditorialSarah Clarke, a lab technician at the Sequencing and Genomic Technologies Shared Resource at Duke University in Durham, N.C., works with positive coronavirus samples on Feb. 3, 2021.
EditorialCoronavirus samples for genomic sequencing being unpacked in the Bonsignori Lab of Duke University in Durham, N.C., Feb. 3, 2021. (Pete Kiehart/The New York Times)
EditorialSarah Clarke, a lab technician at the Sequencing and Genomic Technologies Shared Resource at Duke University in Durham, N.C., works with positive coronavirus samples on Feb. 3, 2021.
EditorialCoronavirus samples for genomic sequencing being unpacked in the Bonsignori Lab of Duke University in Durham, N.C., Feb. 3, 2021. (Pete Kiehart/The New York Times)
EditorialNaah Allotey, right, processes COVID-19 testing paperwork prior to testing a patient at NYC Health + Hospitals/Harlem on Dec. 22, 2020. (James Estrin/The New York Times)
EditorialDr. Ravindra Gupta, left, and Dr. Steven Kemp in the research laboratories at the Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, in Cambridge, England on Jan. 14, 2021. (Mary Turner/The New York Times)
EditorialResearch scientist Hong Xie holds a box of samples at a genome sequencing lab at the University of Washington in Seattle on April 15, 2020. (Ruth Fremson/The New York Times)
EditorialA library of coronavirus samples for gene sequencing at a University of Washington lab in Seattle on April 15, 2020. (Ruth Fremson/The New York Times)
EditorialA flow cell used for sequencing the coronavirus at a lab in Seattle, April 15, 2020. Analyzing a virus’s genetic code lets researchers track its mutations. (Ruth Fremson/The New York Times)
EditorialDr. Charles Chiu, a professor of laboratory medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, Sept. 28, 2019. (James Tensuan/The New York Times)
EditorialColaptes rivolii, Print, The crimson-mantled woodpecker (Colaptes rivolii) is a bird species in the woodpecker family (Picidae). It was formerly placed in the genus Piculus but moved to the genus Colaptes after mitochondrial DNA sequencing. Its scienti...
EditorialColaptes rivolii, Print, The crimson-mantled woodpecker (Colaptes rivolii) is a bird species in the woodpecker family (Picidae). It was formerly placed in the genus Piculus but moved to the genus Colaptes after mitochondrial DNA sequencing. Its scienti...