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Will these reprogrammed elephant cells ever make a mammoth?
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Woolly mammoths’ closest living relatives are Asian elephants, which could be genetically engineered to have mammoth-like traits.Credit: Mark Garlick/Science Photo Library via ...
The structure and physical properties of a packaged bacteriophage particle
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Jiang, W. & Tang, L. Atomic cryo-EM structures of viruses. Curr. Opin. Struct. Biol. 46, 122–129 (2017). Article PubMed PubMed Central Google ...
Genome-wide characterization of circulating metabolic biomarkers
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NMR metabolomics In this work, we expand our previous GWAS of 123 human metabolic traits in ~25,000 individuals4 to include additional cohorts ...
Genetics solves mystery of rare brown pandas after 40 years
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Qizai, the world’s only captive brown-and-white panda.Credit: Katherine Feng/Minden Pictures via Alamy Not everything in life is always black and white. Neither ...
Oldest known animal sex chromosome evolved in octopuses 380 million years ago
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The California two-spot octopus (Octopus bimaculoides) has one or two copies of chromosome 17, depending on its sex.Credit: Norbert Wu/Minden Pictures via ...
More than 2 million research papers have disappeared from the Internet
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A study identified more than two million articles that did not appear in a major digital archive, despite having an active DOI.Credit: ...
How heavy is a neutrino? Race to weigh mysterious particle heats up
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Physicists want to ramp up their efforts to weigh neutrinos, which are perhaps the most mysterious of all elementary particles. Currently, only ...
Latitudinal patterns in stabilizing density dependence of forest communities
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Overview We used repeated census data from 23 large forest sites around the globe (Fig. 1) to analyse latitudinal patterns in stabilizing ...
Symmetry breaking and chiral amplification in prebiotic ligation reactions
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Blackmond, D. G. The origin of biological homochirality. Cold Spring Harb. Perspect. Biol. 11, a032540 (2019). Article CAS PubMed PubMed Central Google ...
How humans lost their tails — and why the discovery took 2.5 years to publish
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“Where’s my tail?” Geneticist Bo Xia asked that question as a child and it was on his mind again a few years ...
