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The new synthetic cell grows and divides on its own.

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When antibiotics attack microbes, their stressed neighbors ship them proteins to help them survive, new work suggests.

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With only a few hundred red wolves left, Smithsonian scientist Jennifer Nagashima is pioneering new ways to preserve their ...

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