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A new study reveals how AI-driven deep learning models can decode the genetic regulatory switches that define brain cell types across species.

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In a new study published in Science, a Belgian research team explores how genetic switches controlling gene activity define ...

"Men's gains in height and weight are more than double those of women's, increasing sexual size dimorphism," the researchers wrote.

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Antibiotics are powerful, fast-acting medications designed to eradicate bacterial infections. However, in recent years, their ...

The Molecular Evolution, Protein Engineering, and Production (MEPEP) Facility, part of the Purdue Institute of Inflammation, Immunology and Infectious Disease (PI4D), is a new discovery resource ...