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Mar 19, 2013 07:00 PM ET // Jennifer Viegas
The mysterious giant squid have one of the longest ranges of any species, according to recent DNA analysis. ->
Mar 11, 2013 12:27 PM ET // Paul Heltzel
Resveratrol could target age-related disease and extend the lives of the healthy. ->
Mar 7, 2013 09:53 AM ET // Jennifer Viegas
A miniscule bit of DNA from an African American man now living in South Carolina has been traced back 338,000 years. ->
Jan 31, 2013 02:04 PM ET // Jennifer Viegas
The ubiquitous city dwellers descended from Middle Eastern racing pigeons, new DNA studies show. ->
Jul 20, 2011 11:56 PM ET // Alice Truong
And today's Google Doodle is dedicated to Gregor Mendel, regarded as the father of modern genetics. It's his 189th birthday, the Christian Science Montior reported. Through observations in peas, Mendel, a Moravian monk, came up with the concept of dominant and recessive traits, something CS Monitor...
Nov 28, 2011 12:05 PM ET // Marianne English
A mutation may have helped humans learn how to create complex speech and language.
Dec 23, 2010 06:19 PM ET // Tim Wall
What matters in the long-run is how truly special a species is in the grand scheme of life on Earth.
Mar 24, 2011 11:21 AM ET // Amy Dusto
Radical new research proposes using an engineered virus that hitchhikes with HIV and gets in its way.
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