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Do-it-yourself science is likely as old as science itself, driven by an inherent curiosity about the world around us.
Patients are sidestepping clinical research and using themselves as guinea pigs to test new treatments for fatal diseases. Will they hurt themselves, or science?
Previously enigmatic circular RNAs have been found to influence gene expression by binding to and blocking another class of regulatory RNA, the microRNAs.
Amateur birders record an astounding number of species and individuals in the first ever worldwide avian stock taking.
One gene involved in speech produces more of its protein in the brains of young girls than boys.
Three Silicon Valley entrepreneurs are offering $3 million to scientists demonstrating excellence in biology and medical research.
Disruptions in the interaction between nuclear and mitochondrial DNA can lead to deficiencies in the mitochondrial energy-generating process, affecting fitness.
The first human trial of a treatment using induced pluripotent stem cells has received conditional approval from an institutional review board in Japan.
The group that last year claimed to have sequenced the Sasquatch genome has finally published its data in a brand new “journal,” and geneticists are not impressed.
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