“Data-Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Oded Poncz, founder and chief technology ...

De-duplication (“de-duping”) is the process of comparing electronic records based on their content and characteristics and removing duplicate records from the data set so that only one instance of an ...

Although it may not be as dramatic as the Big Bang birthing the universe, an explosion of DNA duplication in the common ancestor of humans, chimpanzees and gorillas may be responsible for many of the ...

Gene duplication and loss have long been appreciated as powerful forces in genome evolution, but little is known about their influences on different types of biological innovation. This issue has now ...

As scientists piece together the genomes of more and more life forms---from fruit flies to humans---they're finding ample evidence that new genes have often been created through the duplication of ...

Materials from the University Archives' physical collections may be duplicated for use in research and publication. The archives maintains the Copper Country Historical Images database (CCHI), from ...

Geneticists have unearthed a major event in the ancient history of sturgeons and paddlefish that has significant implications for the way we understand evolution. They have pinpointed a previously ...