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Researchers from The University of Manchester—in collaboration with the Universities of Granada, Lund, and Oslo—have ...

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A pair of landmark studies, published Wednesday in the journal Nature, has finally identified the originators of the ...

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To get treats, apes eagerly pointed them out to humans who didn’t know where they were, a seemingly simple experiment that demonstrated for the first time that apes will communicate unknown ...

Over a year after a 15-foot great white shark was found dead with mysterious bite wounds and stripped of its internal organs, DNA analysis uncovered its killers. Two animals, orcas, also known as ...

[Editors' note: this paper was reviewed by Review Commons.] Cancer cells display high levels of oncogene-induced replication stress (RS) and rely on DNA damage checkpoint for viability. This feature ...