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- Life
Genes & Cells
Traditional medicine helps give the slip to bacteria, plus insulin insensitivity and dental plaque in this week's news.
- Health & Medicine
Body & Brain
Thank your mom for your big brain, plus contagious itching and phobia therapy in this week’s news.
- Humans
Hidden dalliance revealed by X-rays
A high-tech analysis uncovers a 19th century painter’s do-over.
- Life
Great-grandpa’s genes gone, effects stay
Removing an obesity-preventing scrap of DNA from a mouse lineage doesn’t prevent descendants from reaping its slimming benefits for generations.
- Humans
Just breathing in Iraq can be hazardous
Poor air quality is an added danger for troops, testing indicates.
- Health & Medicine
New drug boosts hepatitis C treatments
An experimental medication has cleared a major hurdle and seems poised for FDA approval, two studies show.
- Space
First portraits of Mercury from orbit
MESSENGER spacecraft to capture more than 1,500 images in three days.
- Physics
2011 American Physical Society meeting
Powerful X-rays illuminate hidden messages from the past, plus Lyme disease sensors and graphene transistors in meeting news.
- Physics
2011 American Physical Society meeting
Powerful X-rays illuminate hidden messages from the past, plus Lyme disease sensors and graphene transistors in meeting news.
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- Health & Medicine
Worms live longer with thioflavin T
A dye commonly used by Alzheimer’s disease researchers to spot misshapen proteins gives lab nematodes longer lives, scientists say.
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