Scientists are developing cancer-eating bacteria designed to grow inside oxygen-free tumors and attack cancer from within.

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As koalas in southern Australia have grown from a few hundred to almost half a million, the marsupials show signs of regaining lost genetic variation.

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Single-cell omics is a transformative area within life sciences, enabling researchers to untangle cellular heterogeneity, uncover developmental lineages, ...