Researchers have found a way to reliably remove disease-causing mutations from human embryos, an achievement sure to renew concerns over so-called designer babies.

Researchers have found a way to reliably remove disease-causing mutations from human embryos, an achievement sure to renew concerns over so-called designer babies.

By John Backus on October 29, 2015 - When developers talk about "test coverage" they are typically talking about how many lines of code are executed by their test suite. This is a simple calcula...

By John Backus on October 29, 2015 - When developers talk about "test coverage" they are typically talking about how many lines of code are executed by their test suite. This is a simple calcula...

Fall of the Mutations — How we used our new mutation-sentinel library to rid our codebase of mutations.

Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, have engineered a new way to deliver CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing technology inside cells and have demonstrated in mice that the technology can repair the mutation that causes Duchenne muscular ...

In that article, you will learn what is mutation testing and how to use it with Pitest. Then, I will share my journey of bug detection on a real project.

“How predictable is evolution?” is a key question in evolutionary biology. Experimental evolution has shown that the evolutionary path of microbes can be extraordinarily reproducible. Here, using experimental evolution in two circulating SARS-CoV-2, we estimate…