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Animals

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Animals

They swim and they spin: Meet the aquatic spiders

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Health

Everything you need to know about cholesterol

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Just cutting DNA to bits isn’t a big deal. The special trick that CRISPR systems add is to make those cuts only in precise, targeted spots.
Gene Editing

What’s going on with CRISPR gene editing?

By Amber Dance/Knowable Magazine

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Science

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