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Ask Giz: What Is DNA?
Our question today is one that I’ve long since forgotten the answer to since year nine science: what is DNA?
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In a Cloning Breakthrough, Scientists Have Re-Birthed Mice From Freeze-Dried Cells
In a world first, mice have successfully been cloned from freeze-dried skin cells. This breakthrough could be huge for species repopulation.
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Tiny Diamonds in Cells Could Help to Understand Cancer
Over the years, scientists have put together an amazing array of microscopic markers that they can place within cells whenever they need to label and observe distinct parts of a cell’s interior. Such labelling is used for a wide array of research, including cancer research. But sneaking these markers into cells, through the membrane that…
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2019 Nobel Prize In Medicine Goes To Researchers Who Unravelled How Cells Sense Oxygen
A trio of researchers from the U.S. and the UK has won the 2019 Nobel Prize in Medicine, the first of five prizes to be announced this week. On Monday in Sweden, the Nobel committee announced that Americans William Kaelin Jr. and Gregg Semenza, along with Peter Ratcliffe, would split the nearly million-dollar prize for…