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- Health & Medicine
Immune reaction to poison gas brings delayed effects
Researchers have a new understanding of why some survivors of carbon monoxide poisoning later develop concentration problems, personality changes, or sensory impairments.
- Tech
Tiny Timepiece: Atomic clock could fit almost anywhere
Physicists have shrunk the high-tech heart of an atomic clock to the size of a rice grain.
- Health & Medicine
Scanning Risk: Whole-body CT exams may increase cancer
Adults who routinely get whole-body CT scans without medical cause are exposing themselves to doses of radiation that may increase their risk of dying from cancer.
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Cancer Flip-Flop: Gene acts in both proliferation and control of growth
Scientists have identified what might be a new class of cancer-controlling genes that alternates between halting and promoting cancer.
