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Tag: Genetics and Heredity
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The World’s Largest Plant Is a Self-Cloning Sea Grass in Australia
The species is called Poseidon’s ribbon weed, and researchers say it has spread to cover an area the size of Cincinnati over the past 4,500 years.
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Australia Wields a New DNA Tool to Crack Missing-Person Mysteries
The technique can predict a person’s ancestry and physical traits without the need for a match with an existing sample in a database.
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Targeting the Uneven Burden of Kidney Disease on Black Americans
New treatments aim for a gene variant causing the illness in people of sub-Saharan African descent. Some experts worry that focus will neglect other factors.
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Mushrooms Took a Deadly Toxin From a Mysterious Source
Instead of evolving to produce poison, some distantly related fungi became toxic through a process called horizontal gene transfer, scientists say.