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International collaboration doubles the number of genetic regions associated with breast, prostate, and ovarian cancers.
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Genetics experts argue that patients should be told about dangerous variants in their DNA that show up incidentally during sequencing.
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Newly constructed ramps will expand the habitat available to a colony of water voles in London, and similar ramps elsewhere could encourage isolated populations to mix.
Improvements in light-sheet microscopy enable real-time activity imaging of almost every neuron in the brain of zebrafish larvae.
The passenger pigeon was hunted to extinction 99 years ago, but researchers are planning to use DNA from museum specimens to bring the bird back to life.
Next-generation sequencing diagnostics are already being used, and patients are ready.
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