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Insilico Medicine will partner with SK Biopharmaceuticals to discover new artificial intelligence (AI)-based drug candidates for disorders affecting the neuroimmune area of the central nervous system ...

Why humans have a philtrum, the groove above your lip, explained by an evolutionary biologist — from embryonic face-building to vestigial anatomy.

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Researchers led by developmental biologist Kathy Niakan at the University of Cambridge have used base editing in human embryos to learn more about human embryonic development. By deactivating a gene ...

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