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  1. Health & Medicine

    Mouse, Heal Thyself: Therapeutic cloning from a mouse’s own cells

    Mice with a Parkinson's disease–like condition benefited from receiving new nerve cells made through therapeutic cloning of their own cells.

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  2. Health & Medicine

    Still Waters: Skin disease microbe tracked to ponds, swamps

    Scientists establish pond water as the natural environment of Mycobacterium ulcerans, the cause of the skin disease Buruli ulcer.

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  3. Materials Science

    Live Another Day: African insect survives drought in glassy state

    When dehydrated, the larvae of an African fly replace the water in their cells with a sugar, which solidifies and helps keep cellular structures intact.

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  4. Anthropology

    European Roots: Human ancestors go back in time in Spanish cave

    Excavations of a cave in northern Spain have yielded a fossil jaw and tooth that provide the first solid evidence that human ancestors reached Western Europe more than 1 million years ago.