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Climate Change Helped Drive Homo sapiens’ Cousins Extinct: Study

Genetics Steps In to Help Tell the Story of Human Origins

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Homo sapiens Might Not Be Responsible for Neanderthal Demise

Bedbugs Predated T. rex and Triceratops, New Family Tree Shows

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New Species of Human, Homo luzonensis, Identified in the Philippines

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Neanderthal Genes Likely Helped Homo sapiens Resist Illness

Oldest Known Paintings Created by Neanderthals, Not Modern Humans

Jawbone Fossil Suggests Humans Left Africa Earlier than Previously Believed

Scientists Uncover Oldest Homo sapiens Fossils to Date

Homo naledi Likely Roamed Earth with H. sapiens

“Out of Africa” Theory Gets the Genomic Treatment

New Timeline for Homo naledi

Ancient Y Chromosome Analyzed

Dating the Origin of Us

Suspect Sasquatch Sequencing

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Brain Evolution at a Distance

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The Alpha-Gal Syndrome Story: How Researchers Traced a Red-Meat Allergy to Ticks

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Fragments of Lyme Disease Bacteria Linked to Liver Dysfunction

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Universe 25 Experiment

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A Fungus, Not Its Insect Host, Paints the World Red

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Advances in Automated RNA Library Preparation

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Accelerating Recombinase Reprogramming with Machine Learning

Accelerating Recombinase Reprogramming with Machine Learning

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July 2025, Issue 1

What Causes an Earworm?

Memory-enhancing neural networks may also drive involuntary musical loops in the brain.

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Accelerating Recombinase Reprogramming with Machine Learning

Accelerating Recombinase Reprogramming with Machine Learning

Genome Modeling and Design: From the Molecular to Genome Scale

Genome Modeling and Design: From the Molecular to Genome Scale

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Screening 3D Brain Cell Cultures for Drug Discovery

Screening 3D Brain Cell Cultures for Drug Discovery

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Multiplexing PCR Technologies for Biopharmaceutical Research

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