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Top Stories | November 7
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Study offers most comprehensive inventory yet of the human microbiome and a basis for understanding how those microbes affect health.
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Equines join cucumbers and pigs as the most recent additions to the roster of organisms to have their complete DNA code spelled out. The new work on horses also helps answer a key question about chromosome structures called centromeres.
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Researchers are just beginning to explore the genetic landscape of the cradle of humanity
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Scientists argue a newly discovered stretch of DNA essential for larynx development may have allowed the evolution of language.
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Scientists argue a newly discovered stretch of DNA essential for larynx development may have allowed the evolution of language.Hormone is one reason that men and women carry weight differently Researchers pinpoint individual brain cells that respond to particular people and objects. Researchers have pinpointed the protein that gives a cell’s control room its shape and also keeps it functioning. A protein splits carbon dioxide to give fizz its unique flavor. |
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A new study begins to decode pheromone messages and finds that the same chemicals that attract can also maintain the species barrier.11|7 Issue Links A protein splits carbon dioxide to give fizz its unique flavor. A new technique allows scientists to map the 3-D structure of the entire human genome. Researchers have pinpointed the protein that gives a cell’s control room its shape and also keeps it functioning. |
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