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Researchers show that blood spotted onto Guthrie cards, usually at birth, can be a high quality source of methylated DNA for long-term epigenetic studies.

Newborn screening is moving away from strict cutoff values to diagnose metabolic disorders, reducing the risks of false positives and negatives.

The number of new gene mutations in children rises dramatically with the age of their father at conception.

Researchers identify a nerve growth factor in semen that stimulates ovulation in certain mammals, and which could shed light on human infertility.

The human genome that researchers sequenced at the turn of the century doesn’t really exist as we know it.

A citizen science project invites people to report sightings of flying ants across the United Kingdom to track patterns of outbreaks.

Researchers code a book into DNA, demonstrating the possibility of using the biological molecule for long-term data storage.

A small molecule that inhibits a protein important for chromatin organization can cause reversible sterility in male mice.

Global trade in live bullfrogs and a more volatile, changing climate worsen a deadly amphibian fungus.

A single-celled relative of animals forms colonies when exposed to a bacterial product, hinting at the possible origins of multicellularity.

A new initiative offers gold stars to researchers willing to have their studies replicated by other labs, but will it fix science’s growing irreproducibility problem?

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