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The ancestor of the virus that causes COVID-19 left its point of origin in Western China or Northern Laos just several years ...

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Manuel Corpas, the chief scientific officer at start-up Cambridge Precision Medicine, has called for underrepresented ...

Learn about the activation and deactivation of genes over long distances of DNA - an ability that emerged in comb jellies and ...