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  1. Health & Medicine

    Method could boost diabetes therapy

    Allowing insulin-producing islets to grow in close contact with each other during cell culture may increase the chance of successful transplant into diabetic people.

    By Damaris Christensen
  2. Tech

    Software bugs cost big bucks

    An epidemic of software errors in industrial computer programs is costing the United States $60 billion per year.

    By Peter Weiss
  3. Health & Medicine

    Melanoma gene quickly reeled in

    Biologists have discovered a gene that may contribute to many cases of deadly skin cancer.

    By John Travis
  4. Astronomy

    X-ray observatory captures a rare supernova

    Astronomers have obtained the first portrait of X-ray emission from a rare, so-called Ic supernova.