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A comprehensive suite of NGS library preparation and analysis tools can help researchers advance human population genomics.

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Scientists have long thought that babies can’t form experiential memories. Turns out, they can. Adults just can’t remember ...

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n the mid-1980s, tragedy struck two villages in Leicestershire, England. In two separate instances, three years apart, two teenage girls were raped and murdered on their way home from school. On ...

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As the famed British naturalist David Attenborough noted, “In our hands now lies not only our own future but that of all other living creatures with whom we share the Earth.” 4 In the 2000s and early ...