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A University of Arizona researcher was part of a study strongly linking pandemic origin to the seafood market in China.

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Modern North American porcupines are at least twice the size of their southern cousins and have stronger jaws. But how long ...

Biological scientists at the U of A propose a new model for understanding how new genes and novel functions can originate through recycling and innovation of “junk.” ...

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