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Groundbreaking research at Seattle Children's Hospital provides critical genetic diagnoses for newborns within 48 hours.

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University of Central Florida researchers using genetic information say that, with intervention, depleted flamingo ...

Like a phoenix rising from the ashes, our skin tissue—and in fact many types of epithelial tissue that lines and covers the ...

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Scientists studying thousands of rats discovered that gut bacteria are shaped by both personal genetics and the genetics of ...

People with higher blood levels of certain manufactured compounds that persist in the environment are more likely to be ...