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A team proposes that the addition of a small accessory subunit to the carbon-fixing enzyme was key to improving its catalytic properties and specificity to CO2.

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Longer Days Led to Oxygen Buildup on Early Earth: Study

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890-Million-Year-Old Fossils Are Sponges, Oldest Animals: Study

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Lightning Might Have Sparked Early Life on Earth

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Newly Named Chibanian Age Demarcates Earth’s Last Magnetic Flip

Microbe Miner: A Profile of Rob Knight

Fossilized Tubes Point to Super-Ancient Mobile Organisms

Life Thrives Within the Earth’s Crust

Geologists, paleontology, excavation

Oldest Evidence of Terrestrial Life on a Young Earth

Rivers and Streams Compose Much More of Earth's Surface Than Thought

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Prolonged GLP-1 Exposure Remodels Gene Expression in the Pancreas by Flipping a Molecular Switch

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Student Admits She Did Not Conduct Experiments in Now-Retracted Paper

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Cockroach Milk Proteins Churn Out an Ig Nobel Win

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Ovarian Cancer Cells Use Fructose to Promote Metastasis 

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Rethinking ALS Biomarkers: From Discovery to Clinical Impact

Rethinking ALS Biomarkers: From Discovery to Clinical Impact

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Best Practices for qPCR Assay Design and Optimization

Best Practices for qPCR Assay Design and Optimization

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Multiplex Microscopy Becomes Easier with Encoded Antibodies

A new system that enables researchers to uniquely tag monoclonal antibodies for use in microscopy could help simplify complex imaging studies.

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Rethinking ALS Biomarkers: From Discovery to Clinical Impact

Rethinking ALS Biomarkers: From Discovery to Clinical Impact

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Best Practices for qPCR Assay Design and Optimization

Best Practices for qPCR Assay Design and Optimization

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Beyond the Basics: Strategies for Single-Cell and Spatial Transcriptomics Analysis

Beyond the Basics: Strategies for Single-Cell and Spatial Transcriptomics Analysis

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Building Translation-Ready Biomarkers with Connected Workflows

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