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For the first time, chemists have managed to create a type of molecule that was previously thought to be too unstable to ...

Spanning the fields of medicine, physics, chemistry and economics ... a professor at the UMass Chan Medical School, for their discovery of microRNA and and its role in post-transcriptional gene ...

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Two scientists won the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine on Monday for their discovery of microRNA ... the physics prize on Tuesday, chemistry on Wednesday and literature ...

They compared them with those of known relatives and descendants and their findings were announced in a documentary titled 'Columbus DNA: The true origin' on Spain's national broadcaster TVE on ...