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  1. Health & Medicine

    First-Line Treatment: Chronic-leukemia drug clears a big hurdle

    In its first large-scale test on newly diagnosed leukemia patients, the drug imatinib—also called Gleevec and STI-571—stopped or reversed the disease in nearly all patients receiving it.

    By Nathan Seppa
  2. Physics

    Identity Check: Elusive neutrinos morph on Earth, as in space

    Strengthening a challenge to the prevailing theory of particle physics, measurements of elusive particles called antineutrinos from nuclear reactors suggest that no neutrino types, be they matter or antimatter, have stable identities.

    By Peter Weiss
  3. Health & Medicine

    Visionary science for the intestine

    A tiny disposable flash camera that a person swallows can detect problems in the small intestine.