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Libyan scientists, soon to be trained in countries around the world, are undertaking a massive search mission to find missing loved ones among thousands of dead bodies, casualties of the country’s recent popular revolution.
A chance encounter with a crab apple tree leads to the discovery of a new bacterial species and clues to the evolution of insect endosymbionts.
Old koala pelts from museum collections are helping researchers to learn more about the retroviral invasion that may be endangering the Australian marsupial.
Undergraduate students delve into genomics and synthetic biology thanks to a new breed of technologically advanced courses.
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Researchers working in war-torn countries find hints to the molecular roots of posttraumatic stress disorder.
At age 16, Alexandra Sourakov has her first scientific publication, on the foraging behavior of butterflies.
Researchers rediscover a giant insect, thought to have gone extinct a century ago, and plan to reintroduce it to its native island off the coast of Australia.
Scientists at the American Museum of Natural History use DNA barcoding to show that even sardines infected with nematodes can still be kosher.
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