An evolutionary "trap" has haunted crested and marbled newts for 25 million years: Leiden researchers have uncovered a mysterious DNA error that should not be able to arise—yet persists all the same.

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Key breakthrough for the return of the dodo: viable cells have been obtained and genetically modified birds have been prepared.

Dire wolves, long confined to tar pits and fantasy epics, are suddenly being talked about as living, breathing animals again.

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Nov 24 (Reuters) - (This Nov 24 story has been corrected to fix the pricing for Zolgensma to $2.5 million from $2.1 million in paragraph 4) The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Novartis' ...

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