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FX announced today that the FX, Hulu and Disney+ series Alien: Earth has been renewed for a second season as part of an ...

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Ptacek and co-senior author Ying-Hui Fu, PhD, have studied PER2 since their 2001 discovery that the gene and its protein ...

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