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Vinod Kumar is with The Times of India’s Punjab Bureau at Chandigarh. He covers news concerning Punjab politics, Health, Education, Employment and Environment.

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Tucked away in the verdant wilderness of Portersville, Pennsylvania stands a crimson treasure that seems plucked from a storybook – the historic McConnell’s Mill Covered Bridge.

Researchers from Academia Sinica, Taiwan and the Max Planck Institute for Biology Tübingen, Germany, have revealed how the nematode gene nhr-66 controls the production of cuticular collagens that ...

Communities of microorganisms in the gut, called the microbiota, are crucial for human health. Research has focused mainly on bacteria, which are the most numerous microbes in the gut, but fungi are ...

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