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  1. Health & Medicine

    Do liver stem cells come from bone marrow?

    Tests of liver tissue from people who've received liver or blood-marrow transplants show that stem cells in bone marrow can populate the liver as liver cells.

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  2. Materials Science

    Conch yields clues for future materials

    A conch's tough, calcium carbonate shell resists fractures because a protein surrounds the mineral crystals throughout the shell.

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  3. Prenatal problems linked to schizophrenia

    Three large, long-term studies found that periods of oxygen deprivation in the fetus, along with obesity and second-trimester respiratory infections in the mother, are associated with adult schizophrenia.

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  4. Planetary Science

    Martian leaks: Hints of present-day water

    In some of the coldest regions on Mars, water appears to have recently gushed from just beneath the surface, running down crater walls and steep valleys.