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JCB • VOLUME 167 • NUMBER 4 • 2004 580 Palindromic protection esearch from Laura Maringele and David Lydall (University of Newcastle, UK) shows that yeast find a way to survive in the absence of telomeres. By forming large palindromes at chromosome ends, yeast mutants proliferate for many generations despite genomic instability, possibly becoming the yeast equivalent of cancer cells. Chromosome...

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Imagine the scene; the camera pans from a Petri dish of wriggling larvae to a sexy blonde scientist who is peering at the animals through a microscope. She looks up, terror-stricken, and says into the camera ‘My God, they’re evolving!’ While TV and movie scenes like this make most biologists chuckle, Australian conservation biologists who are working to contain an invasion of exotic cane toads ...

Outside JEB iv GETTING A JUMP ON THE COMPETITION

Imagine the scene; the camera pans from a Petri dish of wriggling larvae to a sexy blonde scientist who is peering at the animals through a microscope. She looks up, terror-stricken, and says into the camera ‘My God, they’re evolving!’ While TV and movie scenes like this make most biologists chuckle, Australian conservation biologists who are working to contain an invasion of exotic cane toads ...

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