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A groundbreaking new study from Bar-Ilan University shows that one of sleep's core functions originated hundreds of millions ...
Scientists at Queen Mary University of London and the University of Hong Kong have created a mouse with substituted genes ...
Scientists discover Bronze Age plague DNA in 4,000-year-old sheep remains, shedding light on how ancient diseases spread between animals and humans across Eurasia.
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