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David Crews' lab resembles an exotic pet store; there's not a mouse or rat in sight. This professor of integrative biology at the University of Texas, Austin, studies animals such as the inches-long ...

In recent years, synthetic DNA oligonucleotides have enabled novel applications with developments in synthesis technologies for large-scale oligos. From this perspective, the webinar will briefly ...

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A hefty set of tusks is usually an advantage for elephants, allowing them to dig for water, strip bark for food and joust with other elephants. But during episodes of intense ivory poaching, those big ...