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'Molecular sunscreen' may explain why DNA uses thymine despite its vulnerability to UV damage
Source: Phys.org · Published
Scientists have long sought to understand the complex origins of intelligent life. It remains unclear how biological systems not only formed but survived and persisted under the extreme conditions of…
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