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GloFish spared as California advances a ban on gene-edited pets. The Senate now faces a hot debate on designer animals.

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A mechanism identified by a team from the Montreal Clinical Research Institute explains how the human brain reaches its ...

For decades, biologists have known that the instructions for life are written in DNA, yet the vast majority of those letters seemed to sit in the dark, doing little that was obvious. Now a new ...