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New research in Sweden has produced a "blueprint" revealing how the human heart is built during prenatal development. It ...

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Ribosomes are the cell's protein factories, which read the genetic code and assemble the proteins that every organism needs to live. But as far as how ribosomes themselves were formed, tantalizingly ...