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Guide dog
Guide dogs are assistance dogs trained to lead blind or visually impaired people around obstacles.
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Oct. 8, 2024 — A research team describes how they engineered an efficient new enzyme that can produce a synthetic genetic material called threose nucleic acid. The ability to synthesize artificial chains of TNA, ...
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