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Complexity Postdoctoral Fellow Maike Morrison builds mathematical tools to quantify and compare biological variation. Her ...

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How to choose the embryo with the most developmental potential is a very important topic in the field of assisted ...

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Some scientists looking to preserve vulnerable species have turned to a controversial technique: synthetic biology. This ...

EMBL researchers created SDR-seq, a next-generation tool that decodes both DNA and RNA from the same cell. It finally opens ...

The Organismic and Evolutionary Biology professor sat down with Fifteen Minutes to discuss fruit flies, puzzles, and LS50.