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Research into how a father’s choices — such as diet, exercise, stress, nicotine use — may transfer traits to his children has ...

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Estrogens, the main female sex hormone, although they also perform some functions in men, are involved in a myriad of ...

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Injuries are a part of life. When humans get hurt, our wounds heal, but scars remain and lost body parts never return. In the ...

Scientists discover that muscles repair themselves by moving thousands of internal nuclei, a rapid process that is key after ...

Scientists have discovered that T cell receptors activate through a hidden spring-like motion that had never been seen before ...

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