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(7/16) — How do matching chromosomes find each other in meiosis?

(4/30) — How do viruses originate?

(3/14) — What was the process researchers used to engineer a yeast strain that produces ethanol faster than other strains?

(2/13) — Can a scientist comment on the latest prion-related paper?

(1/3) — Why don't people get heart cancer?

(12/18) — What causes autoimmune diseases and why don't they occur more often?

(12/3) — I recently read that schizophrenia is related to the age of the father. Is this condition mitotic in origin?

(11/15) — Recently there have been some breakthroughs in our understanding of Parkinson's. How might these findings affect the way we treat the disease?

(10/16) — Can adult stem cells cure any diseases?

(10/13) — Do adult and embryonic stem cells have different therapeutic potential?

(10/12) — What are adult stem cells and where are they found?

(10/2) — What is the issue regarding whether viruses are alive or dead?  Why do some scientists believe a virus is alive and some believe its dead?

(9/27) — Is it possible that fungi know everything about the metabolic pathways of bacteria and specifically produce antibiotics that target those pathways?

(8/24) — What is a microarray?

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