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  1. Health & Medicine

    Antidepressant drugs show link to diabetes

    People taking antidepressant medication might be at increased risk of developing diabetes.

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  2. Health & Medicine

    New drugs reduce blood sugar

    Two experimental drugs can lower blood sugar significantly in people with type 2 diabetes.

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  3. Three gene variants boost diabetes risk

    Researchers have linked small variations in three genes to type 2 diabetes.

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  4. Health & Medicine

    Glucosamine isn’t at fault

    The popular dietary supplement glucosamine doesn't cause insulin resistance, the precursor of type 2 diabetes.

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  5. Health & Medicine

    Coffee protects against alcoholic cirrhosis

    A sobering cup of coffee could provide protection against cirrhosis, a liver-scarring disease common in alcoholics.

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  6. Earth

    Something’s fishy about these hormones

    Synthetic steroids used to beef up cattle can impair reproduction in female fish and even give them macho physical traits.

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  7. Plants

    Herbal therapy for beleaguered lawns

    Mustard and other herbal remedies can thwart turf attacks by root-feeding roundworms.

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  8. Earth

    Main source of airborne pollen varies by month

    A 15-year study conducted in the New York City area charts how air concentrations of different types of allergy-causing pollen vary throughout an average year.

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  9. Materials Science

    Greenhouse Glass: Squeezing and heating carbon dioxide yields exotic, see-through solid

    Researchers have forged solid glass from carbon dioxide.

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  10. Health & Medicine

    Wasting Away: Prozac loses promise as anorexia nervosa fighter

    Although often prescribed for people with anorexia nervosa, the popular antidepressant medication Prozac offers no better protection against the potentially fatal eating disorder than placebo pills do.

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  11. Paleontology

    Ancient webbed masters

    Newly unearthed fossils of a 110-million-year-old bolster the notion that all modern birds evolved from aquatic ancestors.

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  12. Fat Friends: Gut-microbe partners bring in more calories

    The collaborative efforts of two common gut microbes could increase the calories that a person extracts from food and store as fat, a study in mice suggests.

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