Gene discovery could shave years off avocado breeding

Scientists have found a genetic switch that could shave years off avocado breeding by allowing researchers to identify one of ...
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Inherited genes can steer how cancer evolves after DNA damage, a mouse study found

A single dose of a cancer-causing chemical, given to mice at 15 days of age, produced strikingly different tumors depending ...
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Ancient DNA suggests Neanderthals and humans mixed for reasons that had nothing to do with attraction

Genomic analysis of ancient and modern human DNA has exposed a striking pattern in how Neanderthal genes entered the human lineage: the mixing was heavily skewed by sex, with Neanderthal males and ...