A California Chinook Salmon Jumps into a waterfall during spawning season
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Splitting Chinook salmon into two groups based on their DNA could aid conservation efforts. But some researchers argue that this would be a misuse of the data.

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Sudden Decline in Salmon Growth May Signal Ecological Shift

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A “Climate Catastrophe”: Western US Salmon on the Brink

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Farmed Atlantic Salmon Likely Passed Virus to Wild Pacific Salmon

Opinion: Western Canada Must Stop Clearcutting Its “Mother” Trees

What’s Killing Killer Whales? Autopsies Reveal a Role for Humans

Q&A: Tire Rubber Preservative Harms Coho Salmon, Study Suggests

FDA Lifts Import Restrictions on Genetically Engineered Salmon

Study Finds Epigenetic Differences Between Hatchery-Raised and Wild-Born Salmon

NOAA: Common Pesticides Threaten Endangered Salmon, Other Marine Life

More Than 300,000 Atlantic Salmon Spill into Pacific

Does Farming Drive Fish Disease?

GM Salmon Approved in Canada

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FDA OKs GM Salmon

Opinion: GM Salmon: Just the Beginning

Opinion: Sizing Up GM Salmon

Rock Snot Explained

GM Salmon Goes Commercial

GM Salmon and Wild Fish Can Reproduce

Something Fishy Going On?

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A Gut Pathogen’s Unexpected Weapon Against Amyloid Diseases

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Universe 25 Experiment

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Maternal Iron Deficiency Can Trigger Sex Reversal in Mouse Embryos

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Taking Control of Cellular Contamination with PCR Testing

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Electronic Records in Cell Culture Management

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Nergal Networks: Where Friendship Meets Infection

A citizen science game explores how social choices and networks can influence how an illness moves through a population.

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Maximizing Lentivirus Recovery

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Unraveling Complex Biology with Five-Dimensional Multiomics

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Resurrecting Plant Defense Mechanisms to Avoid Crop Pathogens

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