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  1. Health & Medicine

    Itchy and scratchy

    People with a close relative who has had shingles face a heightened risk of getting the skin disease, and should probably be first in line to get the vaccine.

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  2. Life

    For bacteria, it’s a hard-knock life

    Bacteria stick better to rigid surfaces.

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  3. Physics

    Catching the cell in action

    A light microscope with high resolution may enable scientists to view the 3-D structures within living cells.

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  4. Life

    Sepsis buster

    The Ashwell receptor, a sugar-binding protein on liver cells, helps fight sepsis by clearing blood-clotting factors. The discovery clears up years of mystery surrounding the receptor’s function.