Scientists are taught early in our training that criticism is a fundamental part of the job. What we are not usually trained to navigate, however, is public backlash, which is exactly what followed ...

When mathematicians Leland McInnes and John Healy walked into their work’s annual “Big Dig” — a sort of classified hackathon for Canada’s version of the National Security Agency — in 2017, they were ...

Dimensionality reduction compresses thousands of gene expression measurements into a two-dimensional plot a person can actually read, and uniform manifold approximation and projection (UMAP) has ...

Sometimes, in the quest for new data, scientists forget that existing datasets can be treasure troves for new discoveries. One such undermined scientific gem is transcriptomic data from the human ...