How snakes lost a blueprint for making limbs

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Oct 20, 2016, 12:47 pm91 pts
Snakes lost their limbs over 100 million years ago, but scientists have struggled to identify the genetic changes involved. A Cell paper publishing October 20 sheds some light on the process, describing a stretch of DNA involved in limb formation that is mutated in snakes. When researchers inserted the snake…

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