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Inside the Massive Effort to Sequence All of Europe’s Lepidoptera

It’s a little after 6:30 on a brisk July morning in a stone hut high in the Italian Alps. A gently hissing wood fire is ...

A new tool for understanding chromosome abnormalities in the eggs of older women

Human egg cells are often prone to chromosomal errors. As women age, the error rate increases sharply—and can contribute to ...