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How did the complexity of many organisms living today evolve from the simpler body plans of their ancestors? This is a central question in biology. Take our hands, for example: Every time we type a ...

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Targeted genetic engineering in many important model systems and in human tissue culture cells has historically been challenging. This has changed dramatically over the past 5 years with the ...

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