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Molecular biology bridges the gap between biochemistry — the study of chemical processes in organisms — and genetics, which examines how the information required for life is passed from one generation to the next. Here, molecular biologist Sue Crosthwaite explains how scientists are unravelling the workings of life’s most complex molecules

Molecular biologists have sequenced the genomes of the mosquito and Plasmodium falciparum. This information may help in finding new treatments for malaria

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