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Scientist and medical technology entrepreneur J. Craig Venter published the first bacterial genome ever decoded in 1995. The ...

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A system once tied to DNA organization in cyanobacteria has evolved into a structure that shapes the cell itself. This shift ...

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Remarkably preserved fossils found in southern China offer a fascinating window into what life looked like at the end of the ...

The very first E.V. was born in the 1830s. By the 1900s, electric carriages were dodging horse droppings in Manhattan streets ...