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Advances in the speed, scale, and affordability of nucleic acid synthesis over the last two decades have catalyzed a rapidly evolving landscape in ...

Biologists at Washington University in St. Louis have discovered the origin of a curious duplication that gives plants ...

The use of CRISPR/Cas9 systems in genome editing has been limited by the inability to efficiently deliver the key editing components to and across tissues and cell membranes, respectively. Spherical ...