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  1. Health & Medicine

    New HIV inhibitor

    A new HIV drug can, when combined with other therapies, suppress even the most drug-resistant strains of the virus that causes AIDS, scientists report in two papers in the July 24 New England Journal of Medicine.

    By Ashley Yeager
  2. Health & Medicine

    Statin snag

    A gene variant explains why some people get muscle pains from cholesterol-lowering drugs called statins.

    By Nathan Seppa
  3. Plants

    Parasitic plant gets more than a meal

    The parasitic vine known as dodder really sucks. It pierces the tissue of other plants — some of which are important crops — extracting water and nutrients needed for its own growth.