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Saturday, November 21, 2009 10:08 PM

Published 11/03/2009 by Discover Magazine


The Sea Change That's Challenging Biology's Central Dogma

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One of the great revolutions in modern science rests on the elongated backside of a grotesque, mutant worm. Inexpensive and easy to manipulate in the lab, Caenorhabditis elegans develops from egg to adult in three days and produces a few hundred offspring three days...

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