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As telomeres shorten with age, genes as far as 1,000 kilobases away could be affected, including one responsible for an inherited muscle disease.
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Hybrid viruses derived from an H5N1 bird flu strain can infect guinea pigs through the air.
Rodents and fruit flies appear to be able to sense nutrients even when they can’t taste the food they’re eating. Now, researchers are trying to figure out how.
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This dramatic science fiction film follows a grieving father using his research to understand his infant son’s gruesome death—and explores the culture and ethics of science along the way.
This month’s AACR attendees, including National Cancer Institute Director Harold Varmus, discuss new approaches to cancer research using whole genome sequencing.
Researchers develop two small molecules that slow the growth of human cancer cells.
International collaboration doubles the number of genetic regions associated with breast, prostate, and ovarian cancers.
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