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Northwestern Medicine scientists have discovered how molecular "traffic controllers" in cells influence aging and cellular ...

JABSOM Cell and Molecular Biology researcher Dr. Jesse Owens has spent the better part of two decades chasing a vision that ...

A new genetic mapping strategy reveals how entire networks of genes work together to cause disease, filling in the missing ...

In a study published in Genome Research, a team of researchers, including Cornell College Assistant Professor of Biology ...

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