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As the generations dragged on past the 27th iteration, the birth rate began to silently collapse. By the 57th generation, a mere 0.6 percent of the cloned embryos survived. The 58th generation ...

Two riboswitches were seamlessly linked into a single hybrid construct that functions as a Boolean NAND gate, shutting off gene expression only when both chemical inputs are present simultaneously. A ...