Quick Take Female ferrets (jills) only ovulate after mating, so unpaired jills can stay in heat with high estrogen for weeks.

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Malaria continues to place a substantial burden on many emerging economies, contributing to significant loss of life, ...

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For the first time, scientists say new therapies have the power to cure sickle cell disease. The disease is a devastating, ...

A new genome-wide mapping method finally shows how thousands of genes connect to drive disease. Biomedical researchers are working intensively to identify the genes that contribute to disease, with ...

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Scientists have discovered that gut-born bacteria may hold the secret for treatments of everything from IBD to Parkinson’s ...