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Bioinformaticians have established that the genes in bacterial genomes are arranged in a meaningful order. They describe that the genes are arranged by function: If they become increasingly important ...

Colossal Biosciences, the company that made headlines years back for claims they wanted to revive the woolly mammoth, say ...

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This year’s Breakthrough Prize—popularly known as the “Oscars of Science”—brought the world’s leading scientists together ...

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A biotechnology company called Colossal Biosciences claims to have resurrected the dire wolf, a species that went extinct ...

Bioinformaticians from Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU) and the university in Linköping (Sweden) have established ...

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