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Blog / What Determines Our Complexity?

November 12, 2019November 12, 2019 / Rachel Cherney / 1

What makes humans more complex than plants or bacteria? Surprisingly, it’s not how much DNA we have, but rather how much of our DNA doesn’t encode for protein – known as the non-coding genome.

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Blog / Arctic Tales of Icy Trails

May 1, 2015February 25, 2017 / Mejs Hasan /

Far out in eastern Russia, deep in the Siberian Plateau, lies one of the great waterways of the world.  The Lena is the eleventh longest river on Earth. For thousands…

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