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  1. Health & Medicine

    Embryo transfer technique could prevent maternally inherited diseases

    A new technique transplants healthy nuclear DNA of cells carrying mutated mitochondria.

    By Tina Hesman Saey
  2. Health & Medicine

    Insulin pump and computer mated to regulate blood sugar

    A test in type 1 diabetes patients suggests that technology exists to create wearable, self-controlled “artificial pancreas.”

    By Nathan Seppa
  3. Materials Science

    Physicists untangle the geometry of rope

    Equations explain why winding fibers together does the job, no matter what they’re made of.

    By Alexandra Witze
  4. Space

    Backward planets may have flipped into place

    Reversed orbits among ‘hot Jupiters’ decreases chance of Earthlike neighbors.