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Study points the way toward therapies for Meier-Gorlin syndrome, a cause of dwarfism

Patients with this genetic disorder have a form of dwarfism — they are short in stature and have underdeveloped ears and ...
The Scientist

Postdoc Portrait: Paras Gaur

Paras Gaur, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Iowa, investigates DNA damage repair and G-quadruplex structures ...

A mass mating event in the lab reveals how yeast cells choose partners

While humans often struggle to find a partner who is both physically attractive and a reliable co-parent, yeast may already have cracked the formula for the perfect match. When choosing mates, these ...

New synthetic origin of replication lets multiple plasmids coexist in one bacterial cell

"If it ain't broke, don't fix it," goes the old adage, which Rice University professor James Chappell completely ignored in a ...
Science Daily

This quantum computing breakthrough may not be what it seemed

A team of physicists set out to test some of the most exciting claims in quantum computing—and found a very different story. Instead of confirming breakthroughs, their careful replication studies ...