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Desperately ill baby healed with personalized gene therapy, doctors say

A baby born with a rare and dangerous genetic disease is growing and thriving after getting an experimental gene editing treatment made just for him.

From the CBC News-2025-5-15:20:6:1

Oldest fossil footprints from reptile found in Australia (Sorry, Canada)

Scientists in Australia have identified the oldest known fossil footprints of a reptile-like animal, dated to around 350 million years ago. Previously the earliest known reptile footprints, found in Canada, were dated to 318 million years ago.

From the CBC News-2025-5-15:14:6:1

New hope for patients with breast cancer gene

Treating patients with a drug before surgery greatly reduced the chances of the cancer coming back, a small trial found.

From the BBC News-2025-5-13:14:6:1

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Handbook of Evolutionary Machine Learning, by Wolfgang Banzhaf, from Springer Nature. (May 10).

The Genetic Book of the Dead: A Darwinian Reverie, by Richard Dawkins, from Yale University Press. (May 3).

Human Dispersal, Human Evolution, and the Sea: The Palaeolithic Seafaring Debate, by John F. Cherry, and Thomas P. Leppard, from University Press of Colorado. (Apr 26).

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May 16 17:03Robust Binding Capability and Occasional Gene Loss of Telomere-Binding Proteins Underlying Telomere Evolution in Nematoda by Hobum Song and others (GBE)
May 16 12:00Transcriptomic and proteomic ramifications of segmental amplification in Escherichia coli - Ryan K. , et al. (PNAS)
May 16 12:00A universally applicable definition for domestication - Kathryn A. , et al. (PNAS)
May 15 08:00Exact and efficient phylodynamic simulation from arbitrarily large populations - Michael Celentano, et al. (PNAS)
May 15 08:00Evolutionary and Structural Assessment of the Human Secreted Frizzled-Related Protein (SFRP) Family - Ladan Mafakher, et al. (JME)

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