The therapy, which prevents the degeneration of sensory cells in the ear, has shown greater efficiency than existing approaches, offering hope for a condition that currently has no cure.

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Scientists found honey bee genes tied to social behavior that resemble human ones, suggesting ancient shared roots.

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Researchers uncovered how ants keep their powerful sense of smell clear: by using a genetic safeguard that silences surrounding receptor genes. This discovery not only solves a decades-old puzzle but ...

A protein historian and evolutionary biochemist found that a protein sequence present across all known life didn’t form as ...

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David Baltimore, one of the most influential molecular biologists of the 20th century and a Nobel Prize laureate, has died at ...