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Scientists have reprogrammed mouse cells into pluripotent stem cells using a gene from choanoflagellates, single-celled organisms related to animals.

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A marine biologist explains why this creature survives in Australia, but few other locations around the world.

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Researchers from the University of Montpellier, the University of Zurich, Naturhistorisches Museum Bern, and other ...