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For the first time, scientists generate functional mouse eggs from stem cells in culture.
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Viruses are responsible for the majority of archaea deaths on the deep ocean floors, scientists show.
Researchers tap into ongoing dengue studies to improve antibody-based diagnostic tests for Zika and address unanswered questions about the emerging virus’s epidemiology.
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President Obama’s executive actions remove some of the red tape for American and Cuban scientists to work together.
Researchers launch an initiative to generate a complete atlas of all cells in the human body.
A Streptococcus bacterium invades the placenta with the aid of a neutrophil-puncturing pigment.
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October 2016
Sequencing has gone from a laborious manual task costing thousands of dollars to a quick and cheap practice that is standard for many laboratories.
Advances in genetic manipulation have simplified the once daunting task of rewriting a gene.
From confocal fluorescence microscopy to super-resolution and live 3-D imaging, microscopes have changed rapidly since 1986.
Imaging and manipulating the brain has come a long way from electrodes and the patch clamp, though such traditional tools remain essential.
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Harvard biologist George Church talks gene therapy, aging, and reviving the woolly mammoth with Stephen Colbert.
Traditional stop codons have a double meaning in the protozoans' mRNA, sometimes calling for an amino acid during translation.
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