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Slideshow: Examples of Eukaryotic Horizontal Gene Transfer

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Horizontal Gene Transfer Happens More Often Than Anyone Thought

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Black Death Likely Originated in Central Asia

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Fish Are Chattier Than Previously Thought

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Unearthing the Evolutionary Origins of Insect Wings

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Why Are Some Beetles Shiny? It’s Not What Researchers Thought

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Ancient Mesopotamians Bred Horselike Hybrids

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Medusafishes Are Grouped by Shared, Odd Traits: Study

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Genome Spotlight: California Sea Gooseberry (Hormiphora californensis)

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Picozoans Are Algae After All: Study

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Some Viruses Use an Alternative Genetic Alphabet

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Who Will Win the 2026 Nobel Prize? Scientists Make Their Predictions

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Vipers’ Self-Defense Mechanism Could Spark a New Antivenom Strategy

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Was Anthropic’s Biology Breakthrough Borrowed From Another Scientist’s Work?

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Federal Research Grant Awards Fall to a Six-Year Low

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Antarctica’s Blood Falls Teems With Mysterious Microbial Life

Miles away from the closest ocean, marine microbes thrive in the red ice and mud around Blood Falls, offering clues to microbial adaptation and past climate events.

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Characterizing LNP Heterogeneity With Super-Resolution Imaging

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