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Tracking 600 belugas’ DNA over 13 years revealed the Arctic whales rarely keep the same mate twice, among the most flexible mating systems known in whales

By BeckhamLangford

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Researchers cataloged 28 possible new species, including snails, urchins and worms, living inside the world’s largest known Bathelia candida coral colony off Argentina

By BeckhamLangford

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Scientists figured out why some DNA-doubled cells refuse to die, finding the ones born from failed cell division are far more stable and likely to survive

By BeckhamLangford

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A new AI method revealed most of the DNA spools inside our cells sit partly unwound, not locked away, sorting into 14 distinct states tied to gene activity

By BeckhamLangford

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Cells that double their DNA through failed division survive far better than those from botched chromosome splits, a clue to how some cancers take hold

By BeckhamLangford

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Scientists found a hidden “genetic clock” that acts as the master timekeeper of an animal’s growth, firing off precise bursts of gene activity on schedule

By BeckhamLangford

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The newly found genetic clock orchestrates whole bursts of gene activity at fixed moments in development, a timer scientists had long suspected but never pinned down

By BeckhamLangford

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Researchers cracked open amber from Goethe’s personal collection and 3D-scanned an extinct ant so clearly they could see the organs sealed inside it

By BeckhamLangford

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Overactivating activin signaling by injection, chimerism, or bacterial infection triggers flatworm ruptoblasts to burst and clear nearby cells in seconds

By BeckhamLangford

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A Johns Hopkins-Texas A&M mouse study found 7% of inherited DNA methylation patterns ignore Mendel’s rules across three generations

By BeckhamLangford

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Disabling a single protein called NFIL3 kept CAR T-cells fighting tumors longer in a screen of 400 transcription factors

By BeckhamLangford

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Pigeons injected with clodronate liposomes to silence liver macrophages got lost on overcast days but still navigated under clear sun

By BeckhamLangford

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Iron-packed liver cells in pigeons act like tiny magnetic compasses, a navigation system never seen before in any other animal

By BeckhamLangford

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The same mouse study turned up a paramutation in mammals — previously seen only in plants and flies — that copies one parent’s epigenetic state onto the other’s gene

By BeckhamLangford

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Patagonia’s new Kank australis sports a 3-meter frame and long flexible neck that suggests it speared fish like a modern heron

By BeckhamLangford

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Disabling NFIL3 via CRISPR kept engineered CAR T-cells from hitting exhaustion, prolonging tumor control in animal models

By BeckhamLangford

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Ruptosis — the explosive cell death researchers just named in flatworms — kills surrounding cells faster than any previously known cell-death pathway

By BeckhamLangford

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Stanford scientists discovered “ruptoblasts” — flatworm immune cells that explode and kill dozens of nearby cells in minutes

By BeckhamLangford

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Bicharracosaurus dionidei, a 20-meter long-necked giant from Brazil, is the first Jurassic brachiosaurid ever found in South America

By BeckhamLangford

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The Elven abyss tunicate uses a brand-new prey-trapping adaptation observed nowhere else in the deep sea

By BeckhamLangford

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