“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 ...

At the heart of every pharma company lies a big problem: medical affairs and commercial teams are independently creating the same content. Working in isolation due to regulatory firewalls, these ...

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 ...

Novel gene function associated with gene duplication can arise in either of two ways. According to the NEO-F model, novel function arises after gene duplication, with one copy maintaining ancestral ...

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 ...