A research team has recreated the evolution of the eye in a physics simulation. The results show why nature chose such ...

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Amid NIH funding delays, reversals and uncertainty, a scientist at Harvard who studies breast cancer has lost one-third of her lab employees and wonders if she can continue her research experiments.

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet and KTH have developed a computational method that can reveal how cells change and ...

A new genome-wide mapping method finally shows how thousands of genes connect to drive disease. Biomedical researchers are working intensively to identify the genes that contribute to disease, with ...

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