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Scientists at the University of California San Diego have uncovered how genetic mutations cause a rare group of inherited neuromuscular disorders and identified promising new strategies to correct ...

Their bodies and their genomes were built in the lab from scratch, each molecule specified precisely. According to John Glass ...

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Hearing that two people have the same type of cancer often leads to one assumption: they'll receive the same treatment. However, modern oncology has moved fa ...

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