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A new study suggests that in the Spanish Habsburg royal family, natural selection may have diminished the most harmful effects of inbreeding.
A cancer researcher found guilty of misconduct has reached a settlement with the ORI that allows him to apply for federal research funding.
A researcher working for a US pharmaceutical company’s Scotland branch is sent to prison for falsifying safety test data on experimental drugs due for clinical trials.
A newly developed drug, modeled after a bacteria-infecting virus, is less likely to become antibiotic resistant.
A decision will not be reached until later in the year, but the United States’ top justices appear to be inclined to rule against the validity of patenting human genes.
Today’s tulip trees carry similar mitochondrial DNA as those that grew in the time of the dinosaurs.
Francis Crick’s Nobel Prize medal for the discovery of the structure of DNA sold for 4 times its estimated value.
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