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A Cornell-led study is challenging a decades-old explanation for how chromosomes exchange genetic material within the ...

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Artificial intelligence programs can spot patterns in electrocardiograms that humans miss. Now, one program is going to be widely available — for free — to doctors. By Gina Kolata Gina Kolata has been ...

Researchers have solved a long-standing mystery of how abnormal chromosomes drive cancer, identifying 81 new genes involved ...

As genome editing therapies move through clinical trials to regulatory approval, scientists continue the quest for the holy ...

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