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First formulated in 1935, the famous thought experiment attempts to explain the weirdness of quantum superposition, but a new ...

While many of life's mysteries remain unsolved, every biologist can describe the basic processes performed by a living organism, including energy use, reproduction, growth and development. While these ...

From chemical building blocks, scientists have created synthetic cells that have most of the hallmarks of life.

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A research team led by the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) has revealed how the genome is reorganized in 3D during male germ cell formation in vertebrates, leading to important new insights ...