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Indigenous DNA in wastewater is vulnerable to exploitation, Guelph, Ont., researchers say

Scientists collecting wastewater samples gain access to a variety of sensitive information. At the University of Guelph in southern Ontario, researchers are working to protect that data.

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De-extinction or pre-extinction? Biotech company's resurrected 'dire wolves' raise questions

Scientists created a version of the extinct dire wolf. But we should be directing our resources to preventing extinction in the first place.

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Saliva test may turn tide on prostate cancer, claim scientists

Analysing DNA in saliva can identify men at the greatest risk of prostate cancer

From the BBC News-2025-4-10:14:6:1

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Neuroepigenetics Mechanisms in Health and Disease, by Brigitte van Zundert (Editor), Martin Montecino (Editor), from Springer Nature. (Apr 12).

It is my great pleasure to announce the publication of the first issue of Disease: Biology, Genetics, Socioecology. We await your valuable contributions. Prof. M. Tibayrenc, Editor-in-chief. (Apr 2).

Mathematics in Biology, by Markus Meister, Kyu Hyun Lee and Ruben Portugues, from MIT Press. (Mar 29).

Royal Soc Publ has published Division of labour, a key driver of social evolution, compiled and edited by M.Taborsky, J.Fewell, R.Gilles and B.Taborsky. A print version is available at the special price of £40.00 from sales@royalsociety.org (Mar 24).

Molecular Genetics of Drug Resistance , by John D. Hayes and C. Roland Wolf, from CRC Press. (Mar 22).

The Heredity Hoax: Challenging Flawed Genetic Theories of Human Development, by Richard M. Lerner and Gary Greenberg, from Routledge Press. (Mar 15).

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Apr 13 17:03Robustness of ancestral sequence reconstruction to among-site and among-lineage evolutionary heterogeneity by Ricardo Mu=F1iz-Trejo, et al. (MBE)
Apr 12 14:03Ectopic gene conversion causing quantitative trait variation by Marina Pfalz, et al. (MBE)
Apr 12 14:03Chromatin Landscape is Associated with Sex-biased Expression and Drosophila-like Dosage Compensation inArtemia franciscana by Vincent Kiplangat Bett, et al. (MBE)
Apr 12 14:03A Million Years of Mammoth Mitogenome Evolution by J Camilo Chac=F3n-Duque, et al. (MBE)
Apr 12 14:03The first de novo HiFi genome assemblies for three clownfish-hosting sea anemone species (Anthozoa: Actiniaria) by Aur=E9lien De Jode, et al. (GBE)
Apr 12 14:03Genes Encoding Intracellular Signaling Proteins in Animals Originated Along with Metazoa and Chordata: Chance or Necessity? by Floriane Picolo, et al. (GBE)
Apr 12 12:00Self-organized institutions in evolutionary dynamical-systems games - Kenji Itao, et al. (PNAS)
Apr 12 12:00Epistasis-mediated compensatory evolution in a fitness landscape with adaptational tradeoffs - Suman G. , et al. (PNAS)
Apr 11 17:03Population genomics of Aspergillus sojae is shaped by the food environment by Kimberly L Acevedo, et al. (GBE)
Apr 11 08:00Evolutionary divergent kinetoplast genome structure and RNA editing patterns in the trypanosomatid Vickermania - Evgeny S. , et al. (PNAS)

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