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The new findings strengthen the "RNA world" hypothesis that describes how the first life on Earth could have used RNA instead ...

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The benefits of sleep may be more universal than we thought. We know it helps clear waste from the brain in humans, and now ...

Faced with demographic collapse in her home country, the Chinese expert is conducting experiments on stem cells and human ...

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Blood cancer is an umbrella term for a variety of diseases that affect the blood, bone marrow and lymphatic system. Like most ...

A new study from Bar-Ilan University shows that one of sleep's core functions originated hundreds of millions of years ago in ...

When scientists pulled genetic material from a pair of naturally preserved bodies in the central Sahara, they expected to ...

AI can now create genome viruses in laboratories and redesign toxins to evade controls, raising biosafety alert and rise of ...

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