Throughout human history, disease outbreaks have emerged and re-emerged. What's different now is that with global travel, outbreaks can move quickly among and between populations.A familiar example ...

This multi-year work culminated almost two years ago now with the complete synthesis of the Mycoplasma genitalium genome 4. At every stage, we've had to develop new methodology and tools.

Cases of bacterial sexually transmitted infections are on the rise worldwide. An international team led by the University of Zurich has now developed a new method for genome sequencing and discovered ...