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Science Weekly: Sharing genes with microorganisms

March 17, 2015

When you think about your genetic structure, where do you think you got your genes? A little bit of mom, a little bit of dad, but what about some help from microbe genomes? Research published in “Genome...

Science Weekly: 100-year-old drug reverses signs of autism in mice

June 22, 2014

There is a theory that autism is the consequence of abnormal cell communication, and new research is pursuing that theory in search of a treatment. Researchers at the San Diego School of Medicine have...

Science Weekly: Geographic variations in microbes tied to obesity

February 22, 2014

Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Arizona have made a discovery that people living in northern latitudes, which are colder regions, have bacteria in their guts...

Zoology faculty, students share 2013's new species favorites

January 26, 2014

In a time when technology has made the world seem so accessible, Earth can seem a smaller place than it is. Discovering a new species can add knowledge and expand the ever-shrinking world a little bit...

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