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  • NEWS Jan 30 2014

    Search and Destroy: How Bacteria Target Foreign DNA

    Many bacteria are equipped with an immune system that seeks out and chops up invaders' DNA. This type of defense mechanism recognizes and targets short regions of foreign DNA lurking within the...
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    When Populations Collide

    More than thirty thousand years ago, Homo sapiens migrating out of Africa began encountering Neanderthals, a lineage that had diverged from modern humans hundreds of thousands of years before....
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    HHMI Investigator Program Launches National Competition

    The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) announced today that it seeks to appoint up to 25 new biomedical researchers through a national open competition. The initiative represents an investment of...
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