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Our genomes are filled with errors that were once impossible to correct. But in CRISPR, we finally found an extraordinarily ...

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A deadly fungus that has wiped out hundreds of amphibian species worldwide may have started its global journey in Brazil.

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Ancient DNA is turning human evolution into a crime scene reconstruction, and one of the prime suspects is a herpesvirus that ...

A plant named Virectaria stellata has genetic traits foreign to its family, challenging the classic rules of plant ...

Decades ago, India’s tigers were on the brink of extinction. Slowly, their numbers have rebounded. But that ecological success has prompted a dire problem—and a race to save many of them from genetic ...

A new single-cell profiling technique has mapped pre-malignant gene mutations and their effects in solid tissues for the ...

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Using CLASSIC, Rice researchers realized that circuits are variable, having multiple pathways to elicit the same outcome.

Little is known about why the woolly rhinoceros went extinct around 14,000 years ago. Scientists have found clues in an unusual source: the frozen remains of an ice age wolf.