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For decades, biologists treated DNA as a static string of letters, a linear code that cells read like text on a page. A new ...

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Tryptophan, the essential amino acid behind the Thanksgiving myth that eating turkey can make you sleepy, has been found to ...

Quinton Tellis, the man previously accused of killing Jessica Chambers in Mississippi, now faces a new murder trial in a new ...

We talk a lot about "investment pieces" around here. Usually, that’s code for "expensive stuff you hope doesn't fall apart in ...

And at a star-studded event in London tonight, Polly and her owner Hannah will receive a CPR hero award for helping to save ...

Thanks to help from other Facebook users, Atlanta content creator Queen Soulara Kadija Tall managed to track her father down ...