Genetics
What would it take to make a unicorn?
Onward’s dumpster-diving unicorns seem like an impossibility. But scientists have some ideas about how unicorns could become real.
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Develop and use a model to describe why structural changes to genes (mutations) located on chromosomes may affect proteins and may result in harmful, beneficial, or neutral effects to the structure and function of the organism.
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Health & MedicineThe many challenges of corralling a coronavirus outbreak
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Health & MedicineExplainer: What is a coronavirus?
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MicrobesDrug-resistant germs kill some 35,000 Americans each year
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GeneticsExplainer: How DNA testing works
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GeneticsExplainer: Why scientists sometimes ‘knock out’ genes
How do we learn what a particular molecule does in the body? To find out, scientists often 'knock out' the gene that makes it. Here’s how.
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GeneticsExplainer: How CRISPR works
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