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A growing body of evidence suggests that women’s relative longevity may be linked to having double X chromosomes.

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MIT researchers discovered that the genome’s 3D structure doesn’t vanish during cell division as previously thought. Instead, ...

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RIKEN researchers solved a decades-old mystery of how roundworms maintain telomeres without a telomerase RNA gene. They ...

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Scientists have used human skin cells to create fertilizable eggs capable of producing early embryos, an advance that could expand possibilities for fertility treatment, according to new research. The ...

Doctors at the Central Military Hospital 108 have successfully performed surgery on a 21-year-old patient with a rare genetic ...

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