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UC San Diego scientists discover enzyme responsible for scrambling cancer genomes; results could enable new treatments for ...

University of California San Diego researchers have discovered the enzyme responsible for chromothripsis, a process in which a single chromosome is shattered into pieces and rearranged in a scrambled ...

In 2020, as scientists around the world were racing to understand COVID-19, Prof. Roy Bar-Ziv and his team at the Weizmann ...

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Discover how golden apple snails' eye regeneration offers insights into restoring human vision through genetic understanding and CRISPR technology.