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Better explicating the strengths and shortcomings of these models will help refine projections and improve transparency in the years ahead.
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Using CRISPR, researchers showed that a region some used to label “junk DNA” has a major role in a rare genetic disorder.
Image credit: Nathan Devery.
Despite myriad challenges, clinicians see room for progress.
Image credit: Shutterstock/David Tadevosian.
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A study demonstrates how two enzymes—MHETase and PETase—work synergistically to depolymerize the plastic pollutant PET.
Image credit: Aaron McGeehan (artist).
Burned organic matter in sediments ejected from the Chicxulub impact crater may have contributed significantly to the mass extinction at the end of the Cretaceous Period.
Image credit: Southwest Research Institute/Don Davis.
Neither domestic dogs nor cats developed clinical disease after being infected with SARS-CoV-2, and infected dogs did not shed virus, whereas infected cats shed infectious virus orally and nasally for 5 days after infection.
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