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  1. Health & Medicine

    Stronger role for a breast cancer drug

    Going beyond its original role as an add-on for chemotherapy, the breast cancer drug lapatinib, when taken with another kind of frontline drug, may find use for patients with the HER2-positive form of the cancer.

    By Nathan Seppa
  2. Life

    Study raises worries for zoo-born elephants

    Study of captive-born females finds big survival gap between zoo natives and elephants in native ranges.

    By Susan Milius
  3. Health & Medicine

    Gene could drive species separation

    Newly identified fruit fly gene provides evidence for “cheating genes” that may cause species schisms

    By Laura Sanders
  4. Earth

    Reef record suggests impending Sumatra quakes

    Evidence of seafloor rise and fall shows southern Sumatra is at start of new earthquake cycle.