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    New Technology Accelerates Crop Improvement with CRISPR

    Scientists who want to improve crops face a dilemma: it can be difficult to grow plants from cells after you’ve tweaked their genomes. A new tool helps ease this process by coaxing the transformed...
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    Mosquitoes’ Taste for Blood Traced to Four Types of Neurons

    It’s one of the world’s deadliest animals, and it has a taste for human blood: the mosquito. Mosquitoes spread diseases like malaria, dengue, and yellow fever that kill at least a half a million...
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    Jennifer Doudna Awarded 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

    The discovery of genetic scissors known as CRISPR-Cas9 has earned two scientists the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Jennifer Doudna, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Investigator at...
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    HHMI Announces Open Access Publishing Policy

    Advocating for broader immediate access to published scientific research, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) today announced significant changes to its publishing policy. The new policy,...
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