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  1. 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.

    By Patrick Barry
  2. 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.

    By Nathan Seppa
  3. Humans

    Divorce is not ecofriendly

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

    By Sid Perkins
  4. 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.