The nationwide experiment will initially include around 100,000 volunteers.
The new database includes data from 27,000 samples collected at sites ranging from Alaskan permafrost to the ocean floor.
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Viruses are incapable of reproducing without the help of a host, whose cells copy their genetic material and fabricate the building blocks of new virus particles.
Plants are locked in an ancient arms race with hostile viruses, but genome editing is giving crops the upper hand.
The findings more than double the number of known defense mechanisms, piquing the interests of molecular biology tool developers.
Insect wings may have evolved from multiple origins, say researchers.
US researchers could become the first outside China to use the gene-editing technique in the clinic.
Researchers suspect the source of the toxins may be some of the state’s 50,000 or so marijuana farms.
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