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Health & Medicine

Sickle Save: Skin cells fix anemia in mice

Using a new technique to turn skin cells into stem cells, scientists have corrected sickle cell anemia in mice.

Plants

Botanists refine family tree for flowering plants

Two research teams have used the biggest array of flowering-plant genes yet to try to reconstruct the elusive evolutionary history of today's flowers.

Physics

Sharper than expected

A new technique beats the resolution limits of ordinary microscopes in a way that seems to defy conventional optical theory.

Tech

Tractor beam

Magnetic nanoparticles selectively bind to specific bacteria and can drag them out of a liquid.

Humans

Strategies to improve teaching

Incorporating emerging data on how kids learn and cement ideas could help schools teach science more effectively, a new report argues.

Health & Medicine

Putting tumors on pause

Keeping benign breast tumors from progressing into a malignant cancer can be achieved in mice by reducing a signaling protein.

Health & Medicine

Diabetes drug shows new potential

Exendin-4 (exenatide) might complement a drug called anti-CD3 monoclonal antibody in reversing type 1 diabetes, a study in mice shows.

Humans

Divorce is not ecofriendly

Divorce often takes a devastating toll on families, but it has significant impacts on the environment as well.

Health & Medicine

Malaria’s new guises

Scientists have observed Plasmodium falciparum enjoying three distinct lifestyles—two of which have never been seen before—in the blood of infected children.

Earth

Folding with a little help from friends

By slowly unraveling a protein, scientists have shown how other proteins called chaperones influence protein folding.