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Two signaling pathways interact to constrain the mammalian heart's ability to self-renew

Medical schools in the UK are teaching physiology courses primarily focused on clinical applications with much curtailed practical laboratory training to the detriment of medical education

Medical schools in the UK are teaching physiology courses primarily focused on clinical applications with much curtailed practical laboratory training to the detriment of medical education

An art exhibition at The New York Botanical Garden highlights our modern reliance on plants and the need to conserve them

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A snapshot of the most highly ranked articles in biochemistry and related areas, from Faculty of 1000

Fukushima update; antidepressants probed; money for nutritionally-enhanced crops

A flurry of studies suggests mutations in chromatin remodeling proteins are a common cancer pathway

Identifying the genomic region that gave peppered moths their darker coloration during the Industrial Revolution lends molecular support to a classic example of evolutionary change

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Freshwater eukaryotes may have ventured onto land nearly 500 million years earlier than fossil evidence previously suggested

Two microbiologists speculate about the possibilities for developing therapeutics that affect human microbial communities