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  1. Health & Medicine

    Aneurysm risk may get passed down

    A heightened risk of having a brain aneurysm seems to be passed down in some families, and the life-threatening rupture of an aneurysm appears to strike earlier in a succeeding generation.

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  2. Health & Medicine

    Brains carry odd load after strokes

    People who die from a stroke have accumulations of a protein called amyloid beta in the thalamus, a part of the brain involved in motor control and sensory processing.

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  3. Bacteria go for a spin

    Researchers may have found the mechanism powering a mysterious gliding motion in bacteria.

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  4. Health & Medicine

    Want that fiber regular or decaf?

    Coffee is a significant, and previously unrecognized, source of dietary fiber.