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Researchers identify a protein involved in the chromosomal disorder that could explain its characteristic learning deficits.
European scientists have taken down the HeLa genome after publishing it without the consent of Henrietta Lacks’s family.
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The country’s fertility regulator reported that the technique has “broad support.”
A presidential bioethics commission lays out the framework for testing the anthrax vaccine in children.
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