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This clinical-stage biotech specializing in blood disorders reported a notable insider sale amid strong recent stock performance.

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The platypus is one of evolution's lovable, oddball animals. The creature seems to defy well-understood rules of biology by ...

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A new study reveals how biological branching networks use surface geometry to shape blood vessels, brains, and plants.

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The 1976 reintroduction of wild turkeys to Wisconsin restored a native species to the state. After 50 years, it's considered ...

Scientists have identified a brand-new species of worm living in the Great Salt Lake, marking only the third known animal ...

Utah Division of Wildlife fisheries biologists planted 2,258 small Bonneville cutthroat trout in Beus Creek in Weber County this past fall as part of their efforts to establish wild, self-sustaining ...