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Researchers at the University of Bristol have traced the genetic changes that allowed animals to colonize land not once but at least 11 separate times across the tree of life, finding that distantly ...

Scientists at Keele University have created the first detailed map of the genetic "switches" that control reproduction in ...

The authors of the study pictured in the facilities housing MareNostrum5, the supercomputer which was critical for processing the vast amounts of data generated by the study. Human gene maps contain ...

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