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First-of-Its-Kind Drug Shrunk Oral Tumors in Pet Cats

A drug that acts on a notoriously hard-to-target protein shows promise in a cat oral cancer clinical trial. It may someday help human patients, too.

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How Are De Novo Genes Regulated?

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Congressional inaction has led to the expiration of the federal government’s SBIR/STTR program, cutting off a biotechnology lifeline.

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Lurking in the vast expanse of the ocean and buried deep in the Siberian permafrost, there are giants—not blue whales and mammoths, but giant viruses.

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