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The evidence for the authors' claims is convincing, combining state-of-the-art conditional gene deletion in the mouse lens with histological and molecular approaches. This work should be of great ...

Garfield, star of the eponymous comic strip created by Jim Davis in 1978, is, like many of the cats that roam our homes, ...

Metal exposure measured in urine was tied to lower cognitive performance and increased dementia risk. Traces of nine ...

Findings show that within-host MTBC variation improves transmission inference, suggesting new strategies for understanding ...

Allele: Different forms of a gene are called alleles; these are variations in the DNA sequence of genes. For example, A and B are specific alleles at the ABO blood group gene. Allelic variants can ...

The analysis of hundreds of genetic samples provides strong but circumstantial evidence that the pandemic's origin is connected to the wildlife trade in the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market ...