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With an appetite for answers, scientists get to the meat of why some unusual foods taste like our favorite fowl.

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Domesticated Chickens Were Initially Friends, Not Food

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Bird Flu Hits US Hard

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Avian Flu Case Numbers Soar in Europe

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Paleontologists Find Possible Dinosaur DNA

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Pharma Firms Comply with New Antibiotics Rules

Why Many Birds Don’t Have Penises

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Sex Determination: It’s in the Genes—Sometimes

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Peto’s Paradox: How Gigantic Species Evolved to Beat Cancer

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Strange Squeaks: A Uniquely Human Gene Alters Mouse “Songs”

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Understanding Disease Through Biomarkers

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How Do Embryos Know How Fast to Develop

In mammals, intracellular clocks begin to tick within days of fertilization.

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Explore polypharmacology’s beneficial role in target-based drug discovery

Embracing Polypharmacology for Multipurpose Drug Targeting

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Genetic Insights Break Infectious Pathogen Barriers

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