Yale University evolutionary biologist Steven Brady studies the evolutionary impacts of roads on the amphibians.
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Yale University evolutionary biologist Steven Brady studies the evolutionary impacts of roads on the amphibians.
Intrepid Norwegian explorers discovered the Antarctic icefish, a marvel of evolution, while venturing to an island at the bottom of the Earth in 1927.
The method to the dengue virus's maddening infectiousness.
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Long non-protein-coding RNA (lncRNA) sequences are often transcribed from the opposite, or antisense, strand of a protein coding gene. In the past few years, research has shown that these lncRNAs play a number of regulatory roles in the cell. For exa