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  1. Health & Medicine

    Vaccines against Marburg and Ebola viruses advance

    Two new vaccines protect against the lethal Ebola and Marburg viruses, tests in monkeys show.

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  2. Health & Medicine

    Cells in heart can regenerate dead tissue

    Stem cells in heart tissue that has survived a heart attack can be prodded to regenerate dead portions of the injured organ.

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  3. Bacterial tresses conduct electricity

    New research suggests that several species of Geobacter bacteria use hairlike structures known as pili to move electrons.

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  4. Earth

    Growth Slumps: Melting permafrost shapes Alaskan lakes

    A new model suggests that some fast-growing, egg-shaped lakes in Alaska expand when their permafrost banks melt and slump in tiny landslides.