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To Understand Brain Disorders, Consider the Astrocyte

[ad_1] This was slow going. “We spent a lot of time, probably the first couple of years, really just working…

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Epigenetic ‘Clocks’ Predict Animals’ True Biological Age

[ad_1] A new tool from Belsky and his colleagues, introduced in 2020 and updated earlier this year, acts as an…

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An Effort to ID Tulsa Race Massacre Victims Raises Privacy Issues

[ad_1] But this is far from the first time family members’ genetic material has been used to put names to…

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Electric Fish Genomes Reveal How Evolution Repeats Itself

[ad_1] Along the murky bottom of the Amazon River, serpentine fish called electric eels scour the gloom for unwary frogs…

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This De-Extinction Company Wants to Resurrect the Thylacine

[ad_1] Of all the species that humanity has wiped off the face of the earth, the thylacine is possibly the…

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Police Used a Baby’s DNA to Investigate Its Father for a Crime

[ad_1] According to the New Jersey lawsuit, police had reopened an investigation into a cold case and had used genetics…

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Quashing Racist Pseudoscience Is Science’s Responsibility

[ad_1] Though these two classes (the mainstream and the fringe) are very different, each contributes to the public confusion that…

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Could Life Use a Longer Genetic Code? Maybe, but It’s Unlikely

[ad_1] As wildly diverse as life on Earth is—whether it’s a jaguar hunting down a deer in the Amazon, an…

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Australia Moves Ahead Cautiously With ‘3-Parent IVF’

[ad_1] Australia’s cautious approach is similar to that of the UK, where Parliament voted to legalize mitochondrial donation in 2015.…

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This Blood Test Detects Cancer in Dogs. But Do You Want to Know?

[ad_1] This algorithm has been designed to spot these genetic indicators across many dog breeds with different forms of cancer:…

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