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Sean Ryder, professor at UMass Chan Medical School, has written a book to delve the mysteries of ribonucleic acid as a tool to fight diseases. Messenger ribonucleic acid, or mRNA, is in the public ...

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This year marks the English novelist's 250th birthday. Her hundreds of surviving letters—both real and fictional—offer ...