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Scientists conducting a large-scale, comparative transcriptomics project have inadvertently highlighted widespread contamination in sequencing data.

Nearly 20,000 lncRNAs identified in human cells may play some role in cellular activities.

A new algorithm reveals hoards of preparation-induced DNA mutations in publicly available human sequences.

When she entered the U.S. shortly before the Iranian revolution of 1979, the now 41-year-old geneticist was a refugee toddler. 

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