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A West Coast biotech entrepreneur says he’s secured $30 million to form a public-benefit company to study how to safely create genetically edited babies, marking the largest known investment into the ...

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Scientists discovered true teeth growing on the head of the spotted ratfish, a distant shark relative. The toothed structure, ...

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