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3rd annual Fossil Day teaches P.E.I. kids how to find prehistoric treasures

Prince Edward Island is rich with fossils from the Permian period, roughly 290 million years ago. A lot of the known specimens in the province are discovered by children, making the third annual Fossil Day in Charlottetown that much more important for teaching young people how to identify them. CBC P.E.I. went to check it out.

From the CBC News-2026-4-14:14:6:1

Why weight-loss jabs work better for some people than others

People who carry variations in two genes linked to appetite and digestion can lose more weight when taking drugs such as Wegovy and Mounjaro to treat obesity, research suggests.

From the BBC News-2026-4-10:14:6:1

New light shed on who benefits most from weight-loss jabs

People who carry variations in two genes linked to appetite and digestion can lose more weight when taking drugs to treat obesity, research suggests.

From the BBC News-2026-4-8:14:6:1

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Genes, Environments and Interactions: Evolutionary and Quantitative Genetics Brought Up-to-date, by Jos Ãlvarez-Castro, from Springer Nature. (Apr 4).

Eve: How the Female Body Drive 200 Million Years of Human Evolution, by Cat Bohannon, from Vintage Canada, (Mar 21).

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Apr 14 12:00Cooperative traits maintain bacterial niche breadth - Shryli K. , et al. (PNAS)
Apr 14 12:00Habitat-specific temporal variation in the pace of fish diversification - Nick Peoples, et al. (PNAS)
Apr 13 14:03Pangolin museum genomics reveal the dynamic genetic consequences and extinction risk of the critically endangered Chinese pangolin by Jing Yang Hu and others (MBE)
Apr 13 14:03Phylogenomic mixture models outperform homogeneous and partitioned models by Davide Pisani and others (MBE)
Apr 13 14:03Comparative phenotypic analysis of rhodopsin supports stepwise evolution of dim-light vision in early vertebrates by Yimeng Cui and others (MBE)
Apr 13 14:03Benchmarking imputation accuracy in the presence or absence of a reference panel by Alexandros Topaloudis and others (MBE)
Apr 13 14:03AliFilter: a Machine Learning Approach to Alignment Filtering by Giorgio Bianchini and others (MBE)
Apr 13 14:03Patterns of conservation and loss of Hox genes in xenacoelomorph lineage since divergence from last common bilaterian ancestor by Ariane Buckenmeyer and others (GBE)
Apr 13 14:03Snakes (Colubridae: Erythrolamprus) with a complex toxic diet show convergent yet highly heterogeneous voltage-gated sodium channel evolution by Valeria Ramírez-Castañeda and others (GBE)
Apr 13 14:03The use of dN/dS ratios to investigate types of selection in related sexual and asexual lineages by Finn L Klemp and others (GBE)

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