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Researchers led by developmental biologist Kathy Niakan at the University of Cambridge have used base editing in human embryos to learn more about human embryonic development. By deactivating a gene ...

Scientists discover karyoptosis, a new cell death mechanism causing nuclear disintegration in Alzheimer's and frontotemporal ...

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For a child diagnosed with neuroblastoma—the most common infant cancer, occurring when early nerve cells grow out of ...

Our genetic heritage is not a blueprint or an algorithm, as many biologists have imagined, but something else entirely.

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The National Institutes of Health failed to protect brain scans that an international group of fringe researchers used to argue for the intellectual superiority of white people. Credit...Ben Denzer ...

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