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  1. Humans

    Letters from the September 8, 2007, issue of Science News

    Patent pending If Drs. Glass and Venter succeed in assembling a viable synthetic bacterial genome (“Life Swap: Switching genomes converts bacteria,” SN: 6/30/07, p. 403), will the genome or the new life form itself be patentable? Virgil H. SouleFrederick, Md. The team that performed this work stirred controversy when it applied for a patent on […]

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  2. Humans

    From the August 28, 1937, issue

    Trying to revive an ancient Australian tree called Great-Grandfather Peter, first report of the eerie light known as Cerenkov radiation, and the discovery of a new vitamin.

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  3. Animals

    Cicada Serenades

    One sound that characterizes American summers is the cicada chorus.