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The identity of the Golden State Killer, a notorious serial killer who terrorized California in the 1970s and 1980s,…
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For more than three decades, the nonprofit United Network for Organ Sharing has run America’s organ transplant…
In what will undoubtedly be the largest genomic sequencing effort of all time, an international consortium of…
Guided by the work of Rosalind Franklin, James Watson and Francis Crick discovered the the twisted-ladder structure…
This year, the Food and Drug Administration is joining stoners the world over in celebrating 4/20.
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The Food and Drug Administration has launched a criminal investigation into an offshore herpes research trial that…
India’s eighth largest state is seeking to build a blockchain-based DNA database of all 50 million of its citizens.