Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Gąsiorowski et al., bioRxiv, 2026) Give a tiny flatworm plenty of food, and its solitary body rapidly lengthens as new heads ...

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A University of Iowa biologist has won a grant of more than $1 million from the National Science Foundation to study how species’ reproductive modes may affect their DNA mutation rates. Maurine Neiman ...

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