Researchers find that newts are capable of regenerating body parts well into old age.
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Cut off a newt’s tail or a leg, or remove a lens from its eye, and it grows back. However, whether newts can continue to do this throughout their lives, or lose the ability as they get older, has remained a mystery. Now, in an experiment spanning 16
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An early advocate of the sequencing of the human genome reflects on his own predictions from 1986.
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