For centuries the classification of living organisms into distinct groups and species was done by morphology. While this was sufficient for Darwin and early biologists to study evolution and ...

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Two key sequencing techniques are no longer at odds, thanks to an international effort led by scientists at University of California (UC) San Diego. The researchers have developed a reference database ...

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Carl Woese may be the greatest scientist you’ve never heard of. “Woese is to biology what Einstein is to physics,” says Norman Pace, a microbiologist at the University of Colorado, Boulder. A ...